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Bryana 2022-03-20 08:01:25
Digging through the fog, silently looking for my way. .
Disadvantages: He is quite partial to McNamara, and he is the only one in the film to state his views, and occasionally add questions from the questioner. From his point of view alone, it is somewhat objective.
Objectivity: The director should have spent a lot of thought and listened to a lot... -
Dane 2022-03-20 08:01:25
What is war?
What is war?
No one can give a definite answer.
Through The Fog of War, we may get a glimpse of Robert McNamara's understanding of war from the thirteen lessons he gave. War is complex, changeable and cruel, as he himself said:
There'sa wonder phrase: the for of war, it means that war is so complex...
Errol Morris
Extended Reading
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Ulices 2022-03-20 08:01:25
Morris: What I'm most proud of is the scene of numbers falling from the sky over Japan and the sequence of firebombs falling. McNamara tells a very powerful story for us, but I wanted to do it visually. I use a combination of voiceover and visuals to tell the story powerfully. History is easy to get lost in the details, so when telling history, you need to find the main thread from the jumble of facts. You have to tell a story!
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Cora 2022-03-25 09:01:23
Uncle Mai is simply a legend, this is what a great life
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[recounting the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis]
Robert McNamara: My deputy and I brought the Five Chiefs
[joint Chiefs of Staff]
Robert McNamara: over and we sat down with Kennedy.
Robert McNamara: And he said, "Gentlemen, we won. I don't want you ever to say it, but you know we won, I know we won."
Robert McNamara: [General Curtis] LeMay said, "Won hell... we lost... we should go in and... wipe 'em out today."
[McNamara laughs]
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[from the Epilogue]
Interviewer: After you left the Johnson administration, why didn't you speak out against the Vietnam War?
Robert McNamara: I'm not going to say any more than I have. These are the kinds of questions that get me into trouble. You don't know what I know about how inflammatory my words can appear. A lot of people misunderstand the war, misunderstand me. A lot of people think I'm a son of a bitch.
