Each person in the US should watch this
10/10
Author: steelpen500 from United States
22 October 2011
Every American should watch "Fair Game" It is incredible what happened when our own CIA Valerie Plame decided to be honest during the Bush administration. The fact that Cheney and Bush acted as two regular thugs and got away with it is a lesson to be learned. The acting is superb and the movie itself is a thriller. The fact that this happened just a few years ago is surreal. But there it is.
This is our country. Lets wake up. I almost wish that Sean Penn was not in it. Not because he is not great and believable but some idiots will complain about the movie because of his views. Now I see what Occupy Wall street is needed. We are always talking about corruption of other countries. How can these two criminals be in the street and face parents of young adults killed in Iraq?
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First Oscar-worthy film so far in 2010
10/10
Author: ligonlaw from San Francisco, California
20 November 2010
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Excellent acting by Sean Penn, as Ambassador Joe Wilson, and Naomi Watts, as Valerie Plame, the CIA agent who ran secret operations in the Middle East to locate Weapons of Mass Destruction. Directed by Doug Limon of the Bourne trilogy, this film is a spy thriller which is based on the unprecedented case of Ms. Plame whose identity was revealed to the world by the White House. When her identity was disclosed in right wing news columns, a dozen clandestine operations were jeopardized, and a number of assets, including Iraqi weapons scientists, were killed. This story is unique, because no White House in the history of the United States has divulged the identity of our spies for any purpose.
The villain at the center of the scandal is Karl Rove, who Joe Wilson wanted "frogged marched down Pennsylvania Avenue," for committing treason and putting our field agents and their assets in jeopardy. The score of this film is excellent and should garner an Oscar nomination. The acting may also be at the winner's circle, and the picture itself will probably nominated as one of 2010's best. If the story were not true, it would probably sound too far-fetched. Criminal conduct by White House officials is not unprecedented. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Clinton impeachment are some recent examples of high drama in the Oval Office.
Fair Game is unique in that the crimes against the nation were an exercise of pure power against the truth - to cover the trail of lies which led the United States into a long expensive war for reasons which were never disclosed publicly. The State of the Union address which took the nation to war was a lie. The burden of the American and Iraqi dead rest upon these lies. The United States and Iraq are bleeding our young and our treasuries nearly ten years after the lies got us there. The movie is a great story, well-told, and, hopefully, a civics lesson for those who are capable of learning from the past
