No One Suffered Quite Like Hollywood Stars of the '50s

Rating: 4/10 (19 November 2005)

The cinematography of this film is outstanding as are the actors in this movie. It's also a pleasant change to see a movie made for adults that garners a PG rating. That having been said...
I've seen other commentary that George Clooney's making of this movie is courageous and bold, etc. It's not exactly groundbreaking to make a movie attacking McCarthyism--it's been done before. It's also not particularly courageous to make a movie showcasing opinions that you know most moviegoers, save members of the John Birch Society, are going to sympathize with.
Of course the movie was biased, but I don't have an issue with that. Everything, whether it's a movie, TV show, or news article, is going to reflect somebody's personal spin on an event. However, this movie is just more cinematic evidence that for Hollywood, nobody suffered quite like the rich and famous under the Red Scare. Those people in the gulags didn't even know what misery was all about. And isn't the timing of this movie interesting? We've just recently witnessed the glitterati of America cry McCarthyism and censorship when the benighted fools in the general public decried their incessant, one-sided, harangues against the administration and the ongoing war in Iraq.
If Clooney really wants to be bold, what about a movie on Stalin's purges or the people that were murdered under Chairman Mao? How about modern-day suffering in China under Communism? Now, that really would be groundbreaking.