The Fog of War
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The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
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- Nov 3, 2013
The name is Strange. The life is epic and complex. The man admits he behaved as a war criminal. He uses the phrase "we burned to death one hundred thousand Japanese in a single night" several times. He does not blanch from the death he has caused, nor does he embellish the…
CiaraApr 5, 2025Yes I killed hundreds of thousands of people. Yes I am a war criminal. But in my defense, it was foggy outside
brendan o'hareMay 4, 2024What is truth? Why is truth?There are two crucial, contextualizing moments in Errol Morris' The Fog of War, neither of which last more than twenty seconds. The first occurs while the credits are still running: during a break in filming, we hear the film's subject, former…
sakana1 - Apr 4, 2013
The genius of what Errol Morris gives us here is in the deeply reflective nature of its controversial subject, Robert McNamara. The former Secretary of Defense is a man who, late in his years, is grappling with his personal sense of responsibility for the U.S. military's…
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Boy Roarbison [fka Nag Champion]Aug 14, 2019You could interpret this as a character study in how one perceives oneself compared to the reality of how one actually is.
Grey the DotJan 29, 2023Cinematic Time Capsule 2003 Marathon - Film #57 ”We lucked out… It was luck that prevented nuclear war” Why is listening to a Washington bureaucrat bragging about his war fraught history and some of his mistakes so much more chilling than nearly any other war doc…
📀 Cammmalot 📀 - Dec 29, 2019
[72] Uniformly fascinating and terrifying, to see a man so apathetic in the face of pure horror - e.g. calmly stating, ”We killed about 100,000 Japanese that day…Men, women, and children.” - and to know that, quite literally, the fate of the world is resting on the…
Tony (tectactoe)Dec 12, 2022War criminal who committed several horrible atrocities also made the seat belt The end
Nick RattiganOct 6, 2022• Errol Morris' stock among the arthouse kids these days has plummeted sharply over the course of the past decade-and-a-half, and while it's tempting to blame the Bannon doc* or the hired-gun Theranos stuff**, I tend to point to the fact that his innovations have become so…
Devan Scott
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- MovieDaddy likedThe Fog of War
Morris does it again with this haunting expose on one of the most consequential figures in modern political history. It’s not sympathetic, but rather painfully revealing in how some of the worst people are in charge.
Spencer Rascoff lovedThe Fog of WarA great documentary interview or SecDef Robert McNamara who oversaw the escalation of the Vietnam War as JFK’s and then LBJ’s Secretary of Defense. Watch this after you watch The Path to War.
Mickerdoo likedThe Fog of WarInsightful peek behind the curtain. Definitely so many moving parts that I could see the struggle. Hindsight is 20/20. Appreciate candor.
- 10000BCman likedThe Fog of War
real good
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Errol Morris may have been put on earth to make The Fog of War, a stunning portrait of Robert S. McNamara that closes a year of outstanding nonfiction movies on a high note.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
It will knock you for a loop like no other movie this year.
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
This is spellbinding reality cinema about duplicity and, worse, ignorance at the highest level.
Richard Corliss
Time
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