If you don't have it on DVD, get "The Usual Suspects". You will then understand that now and then, Hollyweird can still can turn out a good one, and this one has Kevin Spacey in it...
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
We watched "Shattered Glass" on DVD the other night. It's a short film. It was about Stephen Glass, the young reporter at The New Republic magazine in the late nineties, who wrote fake stories --- I mean fake everything, incidents, names, he even made up company names and created fake websites.
The Libs on the magazine loved him, because he trashed the people and institutions that Libs love to attack.
It was a good movie, tight plotting, good acting and I am amazed it was produced.
No fatuous remarks that Pitt-types blow up to big important "statements" -- at the end the editor is trying to explain to a distraught, female, assistant editor who defends Glass, that writing fiction and passing it off as fact is "indefensible."
The assisttant editor stares at him, seeming to not comprehend. He leans towards her and says, shocked, "Don't you know that?"
I don't think that they do.
It's a good movie and faithful to the facts.