The film is well shot and has good actors, but to me will always have a Clooney shadow looming over it. Not that Clooney’s direction is bad necessarily, it just feels like Clooney trying to impress to me. Dave Strathairn’s performance as Murrow was certainly the highlight of the film for me. His deadpan, stony-faced delivery of his speeches gives them a dignified confidence. He relies simply on his words and his message, rather than emotion language to make his case. This is one of the few examples we’ve seen where a broadcast reporter or journalist actually stood up for what was right, and true. Woodward and Bernstein were the only other good examples, and all happen to be real life stories. These people give me hope that journalistic integrity cans till exist in small pockets within this country, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable efforts.
This is one of Murrow’s best speeches, and is reminiscent of a lot of the issues touched upon in Network
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