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  • April 5, 2016 at 11:56 pm #41518
    wv
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    Trumbo is awfully good.

    April 6, 2016 at 7:08 am #41526
    zn
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    Have not seen it.

    The criticism I heard is, it whitewashes the fact that at some point he actually was a party-line defender of commie regimes.

    April 6, 2016 at 5:43 pm #41548
    wv
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    zn wrote:

    Have not seen it.

    The criticism I heard is, it whitewashes the fact that at some point he actually was a party-line defender of commie regimes.

    You mean regimes like the Soviet Union or China? Well, the movie
    doesn’t touch on that one way or another. I have never held that against anybody, btw, cause a ton of folks were idealistic about the Soviet Union and China and later on figured out those places werent the Utopia’s they
    had hoped for.

    One of my favorite scenes was a short scene where Trumbo’s daughter is on a pony and she asks her dad if her mother is commie. And he says no. And she asks him if he is a commie and he says yes. And she asks him if ‘she’ is a commie — and he then asks her some simple tender questions….
    Ya have to see it. I liked it because it raised an issue very very very few commie-moves raise — just WTF is communism ? Most films about McCarthyism etc, just use the word a gazillion times but never really ask the viewer to define it.

    Louie CK is ok as a commie-writer. He’s a little stiff as an actor, but the diolague itself between his character and Trumbo is excellent. He never lets Trumbo off the hook for anything.

    Helen Mirren is great as per usual.

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