Starring: Faidel Castro, Barry Gore Dewalt, lyndon johnson, John F. Kennedy, cortese Lame, Robert MacNamora, Richard Nixon, Harry Renner, franklin delano roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Biographical record
In 2003
America region
Language English
The film is 95 minutes long.
Color color
Brief introduction of film
What film is this? Let's look at the subtitles of Fog of War. The subtitle of Fog of War is "1 1 lesson in robert mcnamara's life/eleven lessons in robert mcnamara's life". These 1 1 courses on national policy, military strategy, and even government public relations propaganda are all from McNamara, an American field commander during World War II, a former CEO of Ford Motor Company, and a former defense minister in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
This documentary almost covers McNamara's life, but the most talked about topic with McNamara in the interview is the Vietnam War.
Film evaluation
/The Fog of War, which just won the best documentary feature film at the 76th Oscar, was directed by errol morris, a famous American independent documentary director.
The endless ghost of war is a fable in the 20th century. From a humble starting point, he stood on the omnipotent height in the political arena. Through reviewing many real events in the 20th century, the film spans two years and passes through all the first-hand historical materials in McNamara Archives, from the devastating impact of the Vietnam War to the missile crisis in Cuba to the first large-scale incendiary bomb attack in 1945 Tokyo. Until the atomic bomb attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the historical facts such as the gossip about "atomic bomb bombing Tokyo" condensed and refined historical events such as the Tokyo bombing, the Vietnam War and the Ford Great Prosperity, and vividly interpreted many famous sayings in McNamara's life. For example, "maximizing efficiency" in management, "there is always potential to be tapped outside the self" in cultivation, "what you see and believe is often wrong" in philosophical epistemology, and "doing evil in order to do good" in morality. Fog of War is not a standard historical film, but more like a private film of an important person who incites history (McNamara).
In Morris's interview with McNamara, we can see that this tough old soldier likes to teach others lessons. On the one hand, he admits some mistakes he made in strategy, politics and morality, on the other hand, he is also trying to downplay the influence of these mistakes. Morris believes that what this documentary wants to ask is this question: What did McNamara himself learn from these lessons? How to learn from the valuable experience he gave us all his life? For example, can Donald Rumsfeld, the current US Secretary of Defense, and other decision makers in the Iraq war get some enlightenment from McNamara's review?