I saw Fair Game yesterday. This is the film about Valarie Plame and Joe Wilson, and the Bush administration's attempt to ruin both of them after Wilson exposed the fact that Iraq had not tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Africa.
Normally I tried to avoid films about current events, but because Sean Penn is such a good actor I went to see this one. Sean Penn was great as usual. Naomi Watts also did a very good job portraying Plame as here career in the CIA is ruined, and her marriage almost breaks up. The film centers a lot on how the incident affected their personal lives, so it was not focused just on the larger issues of the incident.
One of the problems I have with current events films is that often times some of the characters are made rather cartoonish. In this case Karl Rove and Scooter Libby are already so cartoonish in real life, that the film could not really portray them any worse than they actually are.
Here is the trailer:
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"One of the problems I have with current events films is that often times some of the characters are made rather cartoonish."
ReplyDeleteThat was one of the main complaints about Thandie Newton's performance as Condoleezza Rice in "W".