The youngest Secretary of Defense in U.S. The wholesale absence of honest appraisal, self-awareness or contrition doesn't reflect the picture's shortcomings. They note that Morris fails to crack his subject, to make Rumsfeld concede to having second thoughts - in some cases, any thoughts - about the role he played in causing and botching the Iraq War. Reviewers have suggested that The Unknown Known, which will screen on March 24 and 28 at the Green Mountain Film Festival in Montpelier, isn't as fine a film as Fog. This time, though, Morris' attempts to penetrate the delusions and defenses of Donald Rumsfeld are hindered less by fog than by a succession of smoke screens.
The filmmaker's latest offers a sequel of sorts with its examination of another military mastermind's imprint on history. Errol Morris earned an Academy Award for his portrait of Robert McNamara, the regret-ridden former Secretary of Defense regarded as the architect of the Vietnam War.
The Fog of War (2003) ranks with the great political documentaries of all time.
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