A perfect movie like we haven't seen in years

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2008)

There are very few movies that makes you want to see them repeatedly and suck every minute of it like a sacred, sweet juice. This is one of those movies for me. Like Murrow in his opening speech of the movie said: "And If what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for that saying of it". I don't care whatever subject the movie is about, because this is a movie about the human side of us all, filmed with intensity, and depth. One could argue that the McCarthyism is approached with some naive touch, but again, you shouldn't see this movie for the subject, but feel it for the means Clooney arranged of passing through his message. And it all began with the decision of filming it in black and white. This alone is a powerful cinematography decision. Then, Clooney picked an sequence for opening for the movie, that presents the main characters in a way that lets you look at them like you were there, but looking at the scenes in a corner of the room. All this "coloured" by Dianne Reeves instrumental "When I fall in love", that I simply can't get enough of. I could see these first 2 minutes of the movie, over and over. To end my comment I would like to quote again Murrow on a sentence that could be said this very decade about Americans self-consciousness: "We have a built-in allergy for disturbing and unpleasant information". Good night,... and good luck.