"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." -Edward R Murrow

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2015)

Good Night, and Good Luck starts off with Sig Mickelson (Jeff Daniels) telling a group of people about the career of Edward R Murrow (David Strathairn). Shortly after this Murrow comes up and tells these people about the importance of television in educating and informing the public of major economic of political events. The film then goes back to 1954 when Murrow and his friend and producer Fred Friendly (George Clooney) and the rest of his news team sough to bring down Joseph McCarthy and his communist witch hunt. I love this film for a number of reasons. I love Murrow and I think that Strathairn does an excellent job in the role. He looks and sounds very much like Murrow. The film is shot in black and white and it just looks beautiful. The cinematography by Robert Elswit is fantastic. I give it an A+ there. I also commend this film for it's great and dramatic showcase of Murrow's famous political attacks on McCarthy. Strathairn recounts several lines used by Murrow on his program and he just does a stellar job with it. Whenever Strathairn speaks in a scene where he recites Murrow you're just drawn in to his words. And this once again is due to the may the film is shot. Clooney did a great job here with his second directorial effort. At the end scene when Friendly walks up to Murrow and tells him that McCarthy is to be censured by the US Senate it's not a moment when you get up and cheer. It's a moment where you are just left with a satisfying feeling as is Murrow. I highly recommend it. Good Night, and Good Luck.