I should have known that watching the big lebowski would remind me of stoops. between the movie and the dylan it was inevitable. goddamn and ouch.

I saw good night and good luck which I thought was really well done and well acted. But too black and white (metaphorically). They were trying to draw a connection between the current situation and mccarthyism especially the censorship and the atmosphere of fear. But the movie took the retrospective point of view; mccarthy was unambiguously evil and cbs was on the side of good. At the time it couldn't have seemed so clear. People were legitamately scared of the communist threat. There must have been at least some people who thought that some measures needed to be taken to protect the country.

And now, there are people who think that some surveillence and censorship are justified to protect us from terrorists. Maybe they're right. It's harder to see things in absolutes when you're in the moment in question because you can't assess the danger correctly. I think the movie would have been better if it had presented both sides, some shades of grey.