The pictorial values, and the acting of both "Erin Brockovich" and "Good Night and Good Luck" are profoundly different than "Mother," although both show political awakenings. The more recent American films focus on extraordinary individuals, persons of physical beauty and glamour, or persons of great fame and influence, and the acting is differential, unique, and what the characters say is equally as important as what they do, unlike "Mother." It is true that Erin Brockovich is an every woman type of character to some extent because of her lower class, her status as a single mother, and her lack of education and political voice. Even Murrow is an everyman to some degree because of his status as every American in the eyes of the nation during his London broadcasts, his reputation, and his willingness to voice what many Americans thought during the McCarthy hearings but feared to say aloud.
Both film's focuses are psychological in terms of how the acting renders the main character, unlike "Mother." Although it was also based upon a past historical event, "Mother" does not try to tell the mother's internal and unique story in relation to these events, it uses one mother's image to uphold its own political values. The mother comes to realize that she must bend to the forces of history, and support revolution, rather than change history. Her actions, like holding a flag in protest, are symbolic rather than personally gratifying. The acting, rather than personalized in both American films, is general, and depicted in broad, sweeping gestures rather than subtle shifts of dialogue, or changes in hairstyle or expression to indicate the character's growing political awareness.
The overall texture of both films deploys a different kind of realism than "Mother." The silent film is in black and white, and focuses on motion, and shadows, like the motion of charging horses or the painful shadows beneath...
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