What would he make, for example, of the juxtaposition of Kissinger with Hess, Pinochet and other murderous dictators. I would further recommend the superior documentary The Fog of War to shed just a tiny bit of light on the context in which these alleged war crimes occurred.
This is not to diminish the excellent work Hitchens did in chronicling U. Tigar has little to say about Kissinger, but weaves a wonderful, if loaded, story about Pinochet's arrest by a London bobby. You can almost see the spittle forming at the mouth of this man, which kind of gives away all sense of objectivity the filmmakers might have had. We're going after right-wing political figures and we'll use all tools at our disposal to make the case. Never mind that Tigar's story has nothing to do with Kissinger, except to suggest this is the time to nail him.
Never mind if we use pop songs Mr. No really, very subtle , rapid-fire editing of war images to illustrate points about diplomacy, the whole bag of tricks. I half expected a stuttering Charlton Heston to appear and defend Kissinger, although Alexander Haig is a good substitute. Note to documentarians: leave your agendas at the door.
The only people who will be swayed by your pastiche storytelling techniques are the converted and the ignorant, everyone else can see right through you, even if they lack the sophistication to pinpoint their skepticism. Countering propaganda with more propaganda brings your arguments down to the level of propaganda. While I realize telling stories about people who won't co-operate with you is difficult, that does not make it right to sweep their side under the carpet. CommieTT 16 December The news of Henry Kissinger being selected to head the commission to investigate the Sept.
Based on a book by Christopher Hitchins, the film shows many former Kissinger supporters - including Nixon speech-writer, William Safire - calling the former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State secretive, a liar and even a war criminal.
Kissinger's Cold War schemes of bombing Cambodia, the genocidal invasion of East Timor by Indonesia and the coup and related atrocities in Chile are all well researched in this 80 minute film. His father, Gen.
The general was killed during an attempt to kidnap him, as he was staunchly committed to the constitution, and would not bow to a coup against Allende. Evidence points to Kissinger directing that botched kidnapping. Near the end of the film, Schneider is asked if he planned to press charges against Kissinger for his role. With Kissinger to chair the Sept. This movie deserves anywhere from 6. No more, no less. I couldn't finish it in one sitting.
The reason why this is important is because I've been watching war documentaries all this week- hoping to compile my own with all I've seen.
This by far as been the most boring movie I've had to take notes on. Not just boring, but depressing as well. How a man like this can assume so much power is beyond me, but then again he is a "Rockefeller" man, so I shouldn't be surprised one bit.
As far as I knew he was Rockefeller pawn, in that the evil bastard used him to do his bidding. These evil men acted as a cancer to an already sick democratic society, and it is all but Game Over. Too the unaware anyway. This movie has good information, and it's about the only documentary I know of that investigates Henry Kissinger solely. More proof in my eyes that it was an inside job carried about by the Masons.
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Gibney and Jarecki have it both ways. This straightforward documentary chronicles Henry Kissinger's life with his arrival in America in at age 15 when his Jewish parents fled Hitler's Nazi persecution.
It describes his hitch in US Army counter intelligence; his rise to academic prominence; becoming an influential political advisor to Nelson Rockefeller and, then, on to fame with Richard Nixon. But, this is far from being a complimentary document of Kissinger's life. If Gibney and Jarecki are correct, Richard Nixon and Kissinger "conspired" to sabotage the developing Vietnam peace accord being brokered by Lyndon Johnson and his chosen successor, Hubert Humphrey, in While Kissinger worked unofficially as an advisor to the American negotiators, he secretly funneled sensitive information to the Nixon campaign that served to discredit the peace talks and get the Republican candidate elected president of the United States.
If this is true, Kissinger may have been responsible for making the Vietnam War continue for a long and bloody five additional years with hundreds of thousand or, maybe, millions of lives senselessly lost. And, according to Hitchens's copious documentation, this is just one of Kissinger's lengthy list of what, for others like Augusto Pinochet or Slobodan Milosevic, would be convictable war crimes.
Graced with volumes of video accounts of Kissinger's life while in the public's eye, the docu-makers discuss his appointment as Nixon's national security in and rise to the lofty position as Secretary of State.
In this post he is renown for his participation in the Paris Peace Talks that ended the Vietnam War and for opening up China to the west. But, he is also regarded as being the strategist who secretly escalated the war into Cambodia in an action that dropped more explosives, illegally, than were expended on Japan in all of World War 2.
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