Fair Game
2011; Oxford University Press; Volume: 98; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jahist/jar524
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
Resumo“If you want to know about governments,” the journalist I. F. Stone proposed, “all you have to know is two words, ‘governments lie.’” They also leak, never more profusely or purposefully than when they are in the business of fabricating a casus belli. This point was nailed with satiric virtuosity by Armando Iannucci's movie In the Loop (2009) about the machinations by which intelligence comes to be “sexed up.” In more leaden form, lies and leaks are the currency of Fair Game, which remakes the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson cause célèbre as cause celeb. Like its central protagonist, Fair Game aspires to be many things simultaneously. The director Doug Liman, best known for the Bourne movie franchise (The Bourne Identity,2002; The Bourne Supremacy, 2004; The Bourne Ultimatum, 2007), somewhat uneasily shifts gears between espionage thriller, marital melodrama, and political preachment yarn. Plame, meanwhile, following the precedent set...
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