Good Night and Good Luck

Last Friday I went to see this film directed by George Clooney. I had heard some radio and tv comments on the film, but it seems that I only remembered a part of them. I expected to see a film about Senator McKarthy’s communist hunt, but as the film was coming to an end and Mr. Murrow was finishing his speech, I was already aware that the film was about a subject I felt completely identified with. It seems that mass media have always been the same.
They have to choose between the best sponsors and the truth; between being in a comfortable neutral or pro-power position or challenge the powerful ( politicians, companies, army chiefs,..). It seems that it has always been easy to report things in such a way that they do not annoy the powerful.
Also it has been much more comfortable to say what the majority of people want to hear, giving things a soft slant which does not bother their minds with the idea that things are more complicated and devious than they seem to be, and that they are being deceived and manipulated all the time.
Another thing I liked from the film was that there is no room for vanity or frivolity in it. Black and white, beautiful live music, sober settings and something that made me improve my opinion of George Clooney: he plays a really secondary and unpretentious part in the film, which is completely overshadowed by the main character and even some other supporting actors who have more important roles in the film. He is never the handsome smart man he used to perform in previous films.
I do not think the film will be among the ones which make the most money; actually some people who, I guess, came to see the attractive witty Clooney, did not even wait to the end of the film to leave the cinema, and many others got dead bored or asleep.
As for me, I liked to see that there are still some people who prefer to say what they feel like, rather than please most movie lovers and make loads of money.