Much like my
own Gonzo review, The Washington Times'
Scott Galupo saw an excess of politics in Alex Gibney's Hunter
S. Thompson documentary:
"Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson"
was wrapped at the same time as filmmaker Alex Gibney's last
effort, "Taxi to the Dark Side," an Oscar-winning documentary about
the Bush administration's controversial techniques for
interrogating terrorist suspects.
Not coincidentally, "Gonzo" is overly pushy with Nixon-Bush and
Vietnam-Iraq parallels, but if today's antiwar left were more like
Hunter S. Thompson, perhaps it wouldn't be such a drearily
sententious lot.
"Drearily sententious" -- fine phrase. Elsewhere, the aphoristic
Galupo attributes to Thompson "a theory and practice of
journalism so idiosyncratic as to defy imitation." And rather than
risk an idiosyncratic (if not indeed dreary) descent into
inimitable sententiousness, let's just roll the clip:
topics:
Iraq
