Good Night, and Good Luck -- and it was great.

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2006)

It is likely that this comment will be read by more Americans than any other nationality.
I rarely go to the cinema; the all-pervading television sees to that. I saw GN&GL on the big screen last night (Feb 27th, 2006) in this city; it gave me a great lift, reminding me of the America I thought I knew about from my younger days which date back to primary school during World War Two; even though I have never been to the US. I had always thought that I would go and have a look. The idea of doing that had become abhorrent over the past terms of this Presidency, and of those in the recent past of the Republican sort; but in particular due to the present one.
'Good Night and Good Luck' reminded me of why I had wanted to visit US. As long as there are Strathairn and Clooney like-minds and those of all of the rest of the team that made the film, living in the US perhaps there is no need to worry. As Mr Murrow put it... "To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention." ...In that reprise the movie generates its own approval; who needs mine.