Oh. Is that all...? TERRIFIC FILM.

Rating: 8/10 (26 January 2020)

Reminded throughout "who KNEW it could be so hard ..? I don't know how I managed to miss this terrific movie until now. But here we are again, superpowers jockeying for position to claim peace. Back then the 2 superpowers, The United States and the Soviet Union where in at least one we know cooler heads prevail and quite possibly both. But so many near-misses
too many excuses to dump diplomacy that could have landed in mutual destruction and cost us the planet. As JFK so rightly and humbly put it "I think we both won ..."
Rarely is a history lesson as entertaining as it is factual. I've learned that apart from the necessary embellishments this stuck pretty close to true. President of the United States, his Attorney General and his Chief Advisor are jobs where the wishy-washy need not apply nor the hotheads yearning for war to ignite. These 3 men may have argued each other's logic but never in question their shared deeply principled commitment to exhaust all options before going to war. Each took a turn at carrying out another's scenario to its natural conclusion where again they'd arrive on the unthinkable. There were others who used the unthinkable as a resort without stating the reality that it's our collective last resort. These men epitomize the great America where bullheadedness aims for peace and we the people admire (and therefore elect) a brilliance in intellect, character and tone necessary to keep it and us intact. Yes wishing for something of substance and not swamp to return. Why not be principled again.