Good Night and Good Luck

One of my colleagues encouraged me to see this film which George Clooney produced, directed and starred in. I found it an intriguing piece of film making that sets out to inform and provoke as much as entertain.

Apparently George Clooney personally put up the money to produce "Good Night and Good Luck" in order to make a political statement. Allegedly it was no mean feat getting the rights to make this film and he had to commit to doing Oceans 11 for free, as well as persuade Matt Damon to agree to be in it.

It was well worth it in my opinion, the parallels between president McCarthy's unscrupulous methods of ousting Communism and president Bush's "You're either for us or against us" operandi for tackling terrorism are blatant; if you've not seen it then I recommend it to those of you who are interested in politics or even just basic human rights.

I was recently reading a blog entry by Brodie MacGregor who was commenting on the death of Abu Asma who was killed in Northern Iraq last week, without a fair trial or any sort of hearing whatsoever...this is not just and it is not right.