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Shattered Glass – 2003 Billy Ray
- Ray is an accomplished screenwriter (would go on to write Captain Phillips a decade later among other works
- Half of the reviews mention all the president’s men and it’s a nice flip side of the coin with the dangers of rogue journalism—it’s also a good pairing with Soderbergh’s the informant! (2009) with the serial liar—a very complex well formulated character study here (both for Christensen’s glass character and Sarsgaard’s character as well
- The two storylines of the main characters are brought up and unfold smartly- with a nice payoff at the end—parallel editing of who should really be getting the applause at the end
- Sarsgaard is masterful. He’s especially brilliant in volatile sequences with Christensen and sevigny
- To date is christensen’s only archiveable film
- Recommend but not in the top 10 of 2003
Drake2022-08-15T03:16:18+00:00
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This film is such as terrific study in office politics
I’ve always had a fascination with con artists and I do consider Steven Glass to be a con artist even if money only seemed to be a secondary motivation for his crimes
I loved Sarsgaard performance, I’ve read a lot about this scandal and the real life Sarsgaard said much of the films later scenes were word for word accounts of what happened between him and Steven Glass.
@James Trapp- Thanks for the comment here. I’ve seen this little film at least five times. One I keep going back to for some reason.
@Drake – same, it obviously does not have much in the way of visuals but it works great as a character study of a pathological liar. It is fascinating to see the way Glass is able to manipulate all of his co-wokers (with the exception of Sarsgaard’s Chuck Lane who is the only one to see through all of his lies and manipulations)
The film even has some elements of a political thriller but wisely does not over do it.