Intrigued
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
"Lions for Lambs" depicts a complacent country that's prey to scheming and deluded politicians, in which the news networks care only about ratings, and the public cares only about vapid celebrities. As the veteran journalist, Streep plays a dinosaur, a 57-year-old woman in television, squeezed between her own integrity and the demands of a compromised medium. She's a marvel to watch. Her listening is absolute, and the progress of her thoughts is clear. One of the saddest and most moving 30 seconds onscreen this year consists of Streep, riding in a taxi, looking at the White House outside her car window ... and then, a moment later, looking at a line of soldiers' gravestones. You know what she's thinking. She's thinking what Redford is thinking and about what "Lions for Lambs" has been saying all along.
Tom Cruise as a republican senator? Meryl Streep as a reporter? I love this movie and I haven't seen one second of it yet.
"Lions for Lambs" depicts a complacent country that's prey to scheming and deluded politicians, in which the news networks care only about ratings, and the public cares only about vapid celebrities. As the veteran journalist, Streep plays a dinosaur, a 57-year-old woman in television, squeezed between her own integrity and the demands of a compromised medium. She's a marvel to watch. Her listening is absolute, and the progress of her thoughts is clear. One of the saddest and most moving 30 seconds onscreen this year consists of Streep, riding in a taxi, looking at the White House outside her car window ... and then, a moment later, looking at a line of soldiers' gravestones. You know what she's thinking. She's thinking what Redford is thinking and about what "Lions for Lambs" has been saying all along.
Tom Cruise as a republican senator? Meryl Streep as a reporter? I love this movie and I haven't seen one second of it yet.