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Title: It's all there in black and white (literally)
Review: The best thing about this film is that you don't have anyone telling you how you should feel about what you are seeing. The proceedings of the Army/McCarthy hearings are shown without comment. You are left to reach your own opinion about who was right and who was wrong. But you also can see the faces and hear the timbre of the voices -- you decide who was evasive, who avoided giving verifiable facts, who refused to answer questions, who was grandstanding.The film does not give us a balanced picture of the two sides. But that is because the sides weren't balanced. McCarthy had finally met his match -- people who were tired of his tactics and refused to be bullied any longer. What this film really documents is the destruction of the most evil force in American political history, the beginning of the end the darkest days for freedom of thought and speech that we have yet endured. You see him crumbling. No comment necessary.
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