Movie review: Shattered Glass

I am on a roll! Next on the list of Peter Sarsgaard movies, since it seemed the most appealing/interesting, was Shattered Glass. It has to do with journalism, which seemed more interesting than say, mobsters. And I think he had a bigger role in this movie than in the mobster movie. 

It took place at a magazine in Washington DC, and in the beginning of the movie there were some exterior establishing shots of DC which I thought were interesting because it's interesting to see places you've been in movies. I'm not sure if the magazine still exists. I had never known before about the events that this movie was based off of, so it was kind of enlightening on that front. I just did some googling and apparently it does still exist. I guess it's not as well known as Time or Newsweek, etc. I wonder if I can find it in the magazine section at the grocery store. 

I enjoyed (unsurprisingly) Peter's performance in this movie. It was a good performance and the subject matter (journalism) was also one of particular interest to me. He was measured but intense in this movie. It was nice. No strange accents or facial hair either. He played the editor of the magazine the movie takes place at. The movie had an interesting tension to it, I thought. The lesson to take from it/the events depicted in it is that you shouldn't make things up if you're a journalist. Hmm. That reminds me of how Brian Williams, who used to do the Nightly News on NBC but has now been replaced, made some things up about when he covered the war in the middle east. That happened a couple of years ago and he got replaced by Lester Holt. Although recently it seems like he's managed to claw his way back from that scandal, since he now is on MSNBC and I've seen his picture in magazine advertisements for MSNBC. I was kind of surprised that NBC didn't just write him off completely and not let him have any kind of new job like he does now. I wonder if he misses doing the nightly news. It's kind of a shame that those things had to happen to him. But I guess it's his own fault. 

5 things down, many more to go. Although I'm going to try to focus it on things that he has a more significant role in, rather than things that he's only in one scene. 

Also, I just had a new idea. If I become a movie director and I want to make a journalism related movie, I'll set it in what is now the current day. I think that could be interesting and should be far enough in the past by the time that I theoretically become a movie director.