Who says distractions can't be educational!
Recently I viewed Richard Brook's (In Cold Blood, Looking for Mr. Goodbar) prescient comedy, Wrong is Right. This 1982 film staring Sean Connery looks like and feels like TV movie, but is a rather amusing black comedy about manipulation. In the course of the film a news reporter, Patrick Hale, discovers what appears to be a plot from an unspecified middle eastern organization to blow up New York City and as he is a TV celebrity he is granted an audience by all concerned parties, because "if it doesn't happen on TV, it means nothing."
The plot in brief: Patrick Hale discovers that an Arab Sheik may have been plotting to nuke New York and Israel before his untimely death, which may or may not have been a suicide. As he attempts to find the truth behind the situation he becomes a pawn for all parties involved and eventually winds up being the tool for the US to justify a war on the middle east - in which control of the oil supply is the real reason.
The manipulation of the media by the government, big business, and special interests is a popular area for satire, but what makes this film so intriguing is its presentation of the idea of the U.S. government declaring war on the middle east under the guise of national security but in reality is an attempt to get control of the oil supply. Which appears to have become a reality twice now.
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