Movie Review: Good Night, and Good Luck.

I enjoyed this one. However, this movie probably isn't going to knock your socks off or really move you or anything like that.

It basically details CBS broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow's TV segments that called out Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950's. During a time in US history where there was widespread paranoia about communism penetrating our country and the goverment, people were afraid to speak up against McCarthy for fear of being accused of communist ties themselves. Murrow and his team had the courage to question McCarthy's tactics and accusations.

So in a way, this movie is a documentary without any kind of high drama, suspense, or action. I felt it was well done and did a good job of telling the story of Murrow and his production team (not that I know much background info on them). The movie's in black-and-white, but I felt it just added more realism to the film because it also incorporated actual footage of McCarthy (which is in b&w). The film has it's funny moments in there. Personally, I thought it was kidn of humorous that everybody and their mom smoked cigarettes all the time.