Good Night, and Good Luck.

Rating: 7/10 (3 January 2007)

"Good Night, and Good Luck" is a good movie about the success story of how Edward R. Murrow, a TV journalist in the mid-50s, helps to uncover the lies spread by communist hunter Junior Senator Joseph McCarthy. A thing that bothered me while watching it was that McCarthy was characterized too one-dimensional as a bad guy for my taste. I think Clooney and co-writer Grant Heslov made it a little bit too easy for themselves with this good-against-bad-story. Nonetheless, George Clooney's film is an engaging work about the duties journalism has and about the courage one needs. And as such, it is still valid today, in a time where all different kinds of media get more and more under the (financial) influence of companies or political groups again. A special mention deserves leading actor David Strathairn, who shows us a Murrow with such moral integrity, you would want to congratulate him personally. Furthermore, shooting in black and white was a very good choice for this atmospheric motion picture.