Dark Waters

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🎙️ EPISODE 563: 09.27.22 This movie is extremely necessary, less so as a film than a matter of public record, which makes it difficult to critique in a traditional manner. But it is very, very good both because of that fact and in spite of it. It should be required viewing and should also function as a template for how to tell a story like this. The vile corruption on display is so egregious there's no need to make caricatures out of the enemy. Haynes has made a beautiful document, flatly and without effect. He never reaches for the punchy voiceover or forced humor you so often see in these sweeping "issues" biopics. And he never panders for your heartstrings despite the bleak narrative either. This is simply what happened. And it's as shocking and sad and rage-inducing as anything you're likely to watch any time soon.

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Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals. It stars Mark Ruffalo as Bilott, along with Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman. It was released on November 12, 2019 .