The Report

[TruthBTold]

Has anyone seen The Report ? I have not seen it and I think it is being shown by Amazon. It has a fairly star-studded cast (Jon Hamm, I see you) and I, like others, must remember when the country was going through the subject of the film. It does show a government that is willing to do anything and say anything to get away with what it believes will accomplish the goals it has set for itself. Here is an article which describes a report that Feinstein's committee releases detailing the "enhanced interrogation" (torture) and the fact that it generally failed to produce any worthwhile information.

https://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Feinstein-report-CIA-misled-Bush-public-about-5945109.php

Directly below is a short blurb from The New Yorker describing the film.

 

Adam Driver, looking paler and more intense than ever, plays Dan Jones, an investigator who is asked by Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening), of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to work on a study of the C.I.A.’s Detention and Interrogation Program. The project consumes years, eats away at private lives, and, upon completion, is met with stubborn resistance from officials who disagree with its findings and demand that it be censored accordingly. (The full document has never been released.) The film, written and directed by Scott Z. Burns, takes its cue from the stern dedication of its hero; the result feels pressurized, disheartening, and fraught. Flashbacks to the torture described in the report are at once grisly to behold and, unlike the ill-lit bleakness of the office scenes, oddly superfluous to the movie’s cause. The cast includes Tim Blake Nelson as a frightened whistle-blower and a formidable Ted Levine as John Brennan.

 

— Anthony Lane

 

[+ pitman]

Looking forward to seeing this. Tim Blake Nelson is one of my favorite character actors. He's also great in WATCHMEN, currently on HBO.

[MikeBiDude]

I watched it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m a late comer to being attracted to Adam Driver....but he looks good. Annette Benning does a good/believable Diane Feinstein.