By all means, do not leave this line alone

Rating: 8/10 (13 August 2015)

Herb Stemple (played by John Tutoro--damn near perfectly) is confronted by a reporter shortly after pretty guy Charles Van Doren pours his heart out to some bullshit gov't committee The reporter asks Stempel to take a photo with Ralph Fiennes (Van Doren) Stempel then says to the reporter, right outside the hearing "You know what the problem with you bums is? You never leave a guy alone unless you're leaving him alone. "" It's a clever Yogi-ism. I saw, along with less than 5% of the moviegoers, director Robert Redford, leaving the viewer practically zero latitude as to the important statement the movie made. Like Elia Kazan's "Gemtleman's Agreement" Redford howls of man's inability to not only do the right thing, but man's ability to cherry pic when his brief irruption of acute imbeclitis renders him unable to even see what clearly is the right thing or glaringly moral path. So then, my new favorite quote for now is, YOU NEVER LEAVE A GUY ALONE, UNLESS YOU'RE LEAVING HIM ALONE. Ain't it da truth?