By
James
Hirsen
Robert
Redford has a new agenda driven film out. Unfortunately for him, the timing of
his latest release is terrible. As the nation struggles to recover from the
recent tragic events that took place in Boston, moviegoers have little appetite
for flicks that are sympathetic to terrorism and its evil machinations.
Redford
produced, directed, and stars in “The Company You Keep,” a political action
thriller that is derived from a script, which was adapted from Neil Gordon’s
revisionist novel of the same name. In the movie, Redford plays widower and
single dad Jim Grant, who is an anti-Vietnam War radical and former member of
the Weather Underground. Grant is being sought by law enforcement in relation
to a bank robbery and murder.
For
three decades, Grant has posed as an Albany attorney in order to hide from the
FBI. He finds himself in the position of being forced to flee, after an
aggressive reporter (played by Shia LaBeouf) exposes his true identity. Sharon
Solarz (played by Susan Sarandon) is another fugitive who readies herself to
surrender to the law. Replete with hippie-era cliches, the dialogue of the film
puts a positive spin on sixties' radicalism. "We made mistakes, but we
were right," Solarz says at one point. The line is reminiscent of an
interview that Bill Ayers, former real-life radical and associate of President
Obama, had given a while back to The New
York Times. [more...]
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