I gotta tell 'ya...that Movie "Michael Clayton" is the most depressing movie I've ever seen...

[KoKo]

Maybe their are reviews by DU'ers here in the Lounge...but since I don't go there...I missed them. If there's a link to Reviews by DU'ers then I'd appreciate the links.

I still can't get over the Darkness and Depression of that Movie...it's stayed with me all day. The thought I was left with after seeing it was "WHY BOTHER?" "THEY" will come after you and get you ...NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO" and even though it ends up looking like the White Knight WON..in the end...WE KNOW ...WHAT WAS LOST!

Anyone out here in DU see it? I wouldn't recommend it...SO DEPRESSING BEYOND HOPE! I wondered where Sidney Pollack was going with this...along with George Clooney.

What they were saying was SO DARK...and what we live with HERE ...is SO DARK...one wouldn't want to get out of bed tomorrow!

[Fovea]

1. It was so true to life.

And if we want to know how our enemy is working in the world around us, we should not turn away from this movie.

I found it depressing, but powerful in what a man who had given in to the machine would do when the mask of civilization was peeled away from the life he was living. The thing that saved me from depression was that he found tools around him to stick the wrench into the evil machine he was once part of.

[ikojo]

2. I LOVED it!!!

It showed me that corporations will buy any lawyer (and most lawyers are available to defend anyone or anything if the price is right) in order to win its case. While watching the movie I couldn't help but think of a powerful agricultural corporation who had TV reporters fired for reporting about hormones given to cows to produce more milk. Maybe the corporation in question didn't actually hire hit men to kill someone in this country, but they do heinous things to cover up the truth of the effects of their products.

They buy law firms and media.

It was dark because the truth is often dark.

No one really won.

FWIW, the friend I went to see the movie with, she didn't like it either. She said it reminded her of Erin Brokavich. Having fallen asleep while watching Erin Brokavich, I can't say whether this movie was similar.

[Demoiselle]

3. JUST saw it. I loved it. Dark, yes. But scarey real. And important.

It got applause from the audience at the end.
I'm hoping we're finally waking up now to the danger of corporate greed above all...and the audience seemed to demonstrate that for me.
AND it was beautifully acted, beautifully paced. It's a really good movie.