Review of The Fog of War (2003) by Edgar C — 24 Dec 2010

Overrated testimony.

So let me get this straight: The "brilliance" of The Fog of War is supposedly to come out from its intentional evasion of politics and motivations of war. So, it is "great" because it is an analytical view to the motivations of tragedy and destruction.

Boy, you're wrong.

Morris: Whether your intention was to provide "never-seen-before" truths about the conflict, or to impact audiences with honesty and tears coming from a 80-something year-old man, The Fog of War is really aimless. The message, besides equivocate, is forgettable. Smart audiences around the world have, throughout the generations, kept a critical thinking towards everything that media shows, questioning the authenticity of every written line and trying to read between them. In the end, this comes to be an unnecessary and ultimately unsatisfying report.

Those Eleven Lessons suck, by the way. If society follows them, we will take a much morse course.*.

66/100.

*War is NEVER justified. The only act of violence that is justified is that of defense, and its measures must be, at the most, as big as the proportions of the attack received, as long as such counter-attack holds a purpose.