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...film appropriate medium for an exploration of ideas--be they political or philosophical? For me the answer is yes. I love movies like Judgment at Nuremberg, the first Pygmalion and both film versions of Ibsen's The Doll's House. In all those films the visual was integrated into the drama and they were in fact cinematic--literary cinema to be sure, but why not.

The same can be said of Lions for Lambs. The script by Matthew Michael Carnahan cuts between three separate stories--the action taking place simultaneously in close to real time. At an unnamed Californian university Political Science Professor Stephen Malley (Robert Redford, who also directs) confronts a talented but apathetic student, Todd Hayes (Andrew Garfield) about his lack of commitment. At the same time a clearly neocon Senate leader and presidential hopeful, Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise) tries to sell a new strategy to win the war on terror to veteran television journalist Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) who had once declared in Time that he was the hope of his party--a framed copy of the cover is on the wall of his office. "You sold the war. Now let me sell the solution." Meanwhile the new strategy is portrayed through the experiences of two soldiers (Michael Pena and Derek Luke) as they go into action in Afghanistan. One is Hispanic and the other black, like so many American...

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