High Noon on the Waterfront

It's an inventive short subject, right enough, showing clips on two early films which decried the Blacklist symbolically, while Edward Norton and John Turturro read from the letters of Carl Foreman and Elia Kazan on the personal effects of the Blacklist. There is nothing to say about the real issues of the time -- it feels like we're going through it again over different issues -- but ....

The reality of the two men's reactions was far from a friendly reading of the letters, particularly Kazan, who traded his friends for a clean bill of health from the House Unamerican Activities Committee, and a continuing career. Knowing that, his complaining that he had two terrible choices sounds like someone complaining that actions have consequences.