Fog Of War

Year: 2003

Grade: A-

Country: USA

Director: Morris

Review

though it’s not as entertaining as “bowling for columbine,” it’s every bit as relevant a piece of work. i think both are phenomenal documentaries with vastly different approaches. michael moore has said that his first goal is to entertain and hopefully in the process inform or motivate people. morris, on the other hand, seems to want, more than anything, to provoke thought about who we all are, as evidenced by our best and brightest. morris looks at intelligent people who are, in the case of “mr. death,” dreadfully wrong, or, in the cases in “fast cheap and out of control,” very unique. in other words, by looking at the (known and unknown) elites in our society morris hopes to find out more about the human race as a whole. this film explores humans as political beings and in doing so exposes the limitations of rationality and the limitations/ramifications of conventional political thinking. this a very important film in any context, but especially now.