"Fair Game": Relive the Bush-Cheney wonder years

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"Fair Game": Relive the Bush-Cheney wonder years
Director Doug Liman and star Naomi Watts ponder the murky lessons of the Valerie Plame-Joseph Wilson affair
By Andrew O'Hehir


CANNES, France -- Travel with me now back to the glorious days of 2002 and 2003. Remember what a great time it was? The Bush administration lied to us over and over again, on a vast scale, about the reasons it was going to war in Iraq, and the media repeated it all with the deep and sincere conviction of robots trained as Method actors. Massive international protests, among the largest in history, accomplished nothing (or so it seemed at the time). When the White House was called on its lies, it set out to bulldoze those who were telling the truth.

What's that you say? You don't want to go? Everything about that dismal epoch makes you want to drink absinthe until you vomit? Therein lies the problem for "Fair Game," an engrossing and briskly paced drama that stars Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame, the covert CIA agent outed by the Bush White House, and Sean Penn as her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson. (The screenplay by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth is based on Plame and Wilson's memoirs.) To care about this unusual and highly sympathetic central couple, one must risk reawakening all the painful emotions surrounding America's ill-fated rush to war in Iraq, very likely a top-10 entry on the list of Things This Country Has Really Fucked Up.

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http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/cannes_film_festival/index.html?story=/ent/movies/film_salon/2010/05/20/fair_game

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1. Who want to be a CIA agent....

...knowing you may be "outed" by some political hack who will go unpunished.