COVER-UP is a perfectly adequate look at journalist Seymour Hersh. The film is a look at the man looking back at his life.
Actually, the film covers his early life, coverage of My
Lai, Watergate, corporate corruption, Abu
Ghraib and some of his stories from the last two decades of Middle East
warfare. It is one man reluctantly telling his story.
A good overview of a man who changed the world for the
better COVER UP is an okay film. Barely noticing anything that isn’t one of the
big stories, and not doing much with his almost getting caught using forged
letters (he didn’t know) concerning Marilyn Monroe and JFK the film leaves us
wanting to know more. What about all the other stories he covered? We only see
book and story titles with no indication of what is behind them. Is it bad? Far
from it but where most other docs will bluff you into thinking you know enough,
COVERUP makes damn sure we know there is way too much that we don’t know. Why wasn’t this at least two parts?
If there is any real flaw is the endless fascination with
his notes. Why are the filmmakers so intent on showing his illegible notes?
There is no real reason given, other than he takes copious amounts of them with
details. More important is why do they want to show them when Herch says that it
could get some killed. Laura Poitras should know better than to grandstand,
since seeing the pages adds nothing to the story and only creates a false sense
of drama.
While Hersh deserves better, this film will do until we get a
more detailed film.
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