I don't mind admitting it.
Not sure why I was so affected.
Strathairns acting performance is powerful from beginning to end.
Maybe that was it.
Any other year he was a shoe in for the Oscar this was surely one of the toughest years for oscars.
Anyone else similarly affected by this movie ?
Yes, absolutely. Noticing how recent your post is, which leads me to think you recently saw the film on TV. FYI, I ended up on this board today because it's on today Sunday 5/23 at 3 p.m. on Fox - which is Channel 5 here in NY-Metro area. Also on again 5/29 on My 9/Network TV [think that's right???] - which is Channel 9 in NYC - also at 3 p.m. Wanted to see reviews of GNGL in the years since I was it on the big screen.
Aside from his excellent performance in GNGL, he always does a stupendous job. Remember seeing him in a Woody Allen film - forget which one - where he played the former high school boyfriend of one of the female leads. He stopped by her family home because he heard she was in town - I think. His role was somewhat understated but he was royal in his understatedness. I know there's no such word, but nothing else would have worked for me here.
Bottom line: You Are Not Alone. I practically worship the talent David Strathairn has been given.
I own the movie on DVD and have watched it multiple times....I think its one of the best films of the 1st decade of this century....really well made, excellent feeling for the period...and David Strahairn and Ed Murrow are permanently fused in my mind
It is not our abilities that show who we truly are...it is our choices
Could the movie you remember him in be "Home for the Holidays"? It was directed by Jodie Foster, though, not Woody Allen and starred Holly Hunter and Robert Downey, Jr. among others.
"Well, make something up!"/RG
You're right! Think he's done some Woody Allen stuff too, thus the mix-up. Thanks a lot for letting me know, I loved HFTH.
It wasn't simply the performance - it was the content of the film itself that moved me.
So much of what they were talking about was relevant to today... eerily so.
I guess the basic issues don't change that much over time - but still at the time the movie was made back in 2005 it seemed few were talking about the issues raised.
It was like being underwater for a long time and then surfacing to get a breath of fresh air.
Or the sun hitting your face after a long time confined.
Yes, that much.
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"I don't mind admitting it. Not sure why I was so affected."For myself, Murrow's contribution to the defeat of the demagogue was that he had the courage to use television against McCarthy. What the film showed, in this respect, was a groundbreaking technological and social moment. Murrow had taken a young medium and plunged it into the hottest controversy of that era. Brave voices raised against McCarthy in print and radio had failed. But Murrow's presence, his voice, the demeanor, the authority, and his courage harnessed to this new phenomenon achieved extraordinary magnification and results. What you saw was the beginning of the end of McCarthy's reign of terror. The day after Murrow's broadcast, senators (on the Senate floor) began ridiculing McCarthy, something few senators would dream of doing up to that point. Nine months later, the Senate censured McCarthy. This was a monumental moment in U.S. broadcasting.
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"So much of what they were talking about was relevant to today... eerily so."
Yes, indeed! Especially Murrow's speech at the end. This film was amazing.