Richard Jewell

Year: 2019

Grade: B+

Country: USA

Director: Eastwood

Review

this dude got a raw deal. i had heard about him on a podcast and probably picked up a bit from the contemporaneous reporting, but didn’t remember all that much until the podcast several months back. eastwood gets a great performance from a relative nobody. the bad guys are the government agents who are overzealous and the media that totally get the story wrong and run with it nonetheless. these kinds of stories are why the media is even worse than Trump. how many times do they need to pull this shit on innocent people or kill howard dean’s campaign by playing a stupid scream over and over again or kill gore by playing his sighing at the debates over and over again? the media are ravenous and all consuming. the medium is the message and the medium of 24 hour news networks and (worse) twitter is about as shitty as one can imagine. we’re fucked.

Watched in theater