10/31/2023 0 Comments The unknown knownThis said, The Unknown Known is fascinating not because of what Rumsfeld reveals, but for what the film reveals about him. The upshot is a film that is at turns mesmerising and frustrating, as questioner and subject circle each other, tussle briefly and back off.īut if McNamara was feeling contrite right from the start, looking to Morris as a confessor who would help relieve him of a burden of guilt, the unrepentant, cocksure Rumsfeld is in no mood to be waterboarded, or even buttered up by a good-cop interrogator. For there’s no doubt that in his careful, rigorous, un-Mooreish way, Morris is keen to do the same thing with Rumsfeld that he did with Vietnam War strategist Robert McNamara in the fine The Fog Of War (2003): through patient, well-researched questioning, interspersed with archive footage, media reports and statistical data, to turn the screw on a man who carries a heavy responsibility for some of the United States’ most serious and bloody overseas military operations since the Second World War. The problem with the wily Rumsfeld is working out who’s the cat and who’s the mouse. Oscar-winning documentary maker Errol Morris has referred to this feature-length profile of and interview with Donald Rumsfeld, one of the great survivors of US politics, as a “cat and mouse game”.
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