CINEMA: Shielding one’s eyes from the truth – ‘Good’*

Len Phillips reviews the film Good (rated M) starring Viggo Mortensen.This certainly is the season for learning to understand Nazis. The Reader, which I reviewed a few weeks ago (News Weekly, March 21), is now followed by Good which is a step-by-step depiction of a man who incrementally becomes more and more absorbed into the upper echelons of the Party, even though he is really a “good” person and is portrayed as having no sympathy for Nazis whatsoever.Viggo MortensenThe lead character is John …

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