The two criticisms of “The Fog of War” that I had chosen to read were by Mick LaSalle and Michael Wilmington. Both explain how the movie did an excellent job of putting into perspective the reasoning for why a man—brilliant in mind though viewed as ruthless devil in the media—decided to do what he did. I disagreed with the critics. Although with the death count climbing when in the face of war, it is always easy to point the finger to one man, a movie is not effective when people just do not care. I remember watching the movie, and wrestling against sleep. In fact, towards the end of the movie only three of the students in the class had managed to stay awake/not let their mind wander off to do some other more interesting task on the computer. Perhaps I feel this way, because I do not care much about the topic, however. There were certain techniques of the movie that I found interesting, however. An aspect of the movie that I found to be helpful was the use of the “Rules.” They broke down the main points of McNamara’s reasoning and justification. (The only problem was, was that when McNamara was actually talking, he made people give in to the call of sweet, sweet slumber.) The music of the video was not bad, either. It played in a minor key, giving it a dark, effect. His cold look directly into the camera was startling at times—rather, the first few times. The technique grew repetitive after a while. People know McNamara is an educated man and probably has an IQ higher than anyone else’s in the class, but the justification that he used was not strong at all in my eyes. He spoke about what happened in history, though his arguments basically was him speaking in broad terms and state “it seemed to be the smartest thing to do.”