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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4180181, member: 44"] [B]Richard Jewell[/B] 2019 This is Clint Eastwood's take on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing and the rush to judgement to name the security guard who discovered the bomb, who was initially a national hero, as the bomber. I like Eastwood as a director and this film doesn't disappoint. I remember the story when it happened and the switch was stunning. Jewell was a national hero for three days and then his character was was destroyed in media and he became the villain and national punchline. In summary, 34 Jewell had been "asked to resign" from his job as a college security guard. He'd moved back in with his mother, who was recovering from surgery and took a temporary job as part of the security for the Atlanta Olympics. At a concert event he discovers a unintended backpack and pendatically pushed to have a bomb team to take a look at it. When they do, they discover it contains three large pipe bombs and he and other push to get the area evacuated. Though two people died (one was a foreign reporter who had a heart attack rushing to the scene after the explosion who is only tangentially mentioned in the movie) his actions undoubted saved many lives and prevented injuries to many more. Seeing all the press on how Jewell is a hero, his former boss at his college job calls the FBI and says basically that Jewell is a weirdo, and his cadence, and excessive deference to rules, do make him a bit off-putting, and he becomes a person of interest in the investigation. A local reporter discovers that information and runs with it, saying that he meets the definition of the FBI "Hero/Lone Bomber profile". It gets picked up by the media and Jewell's and his mother's life is trashed. (Fun fact: there is no such FBI profile. Kathy Scruggs, the original reporter, made it up tailoring the supposed criteria to the background she discovered about Jewell.) The movie tells the story of "fake news" and abuse of power by Federal law enforcement it a compelling way. I highly recommend it. [/QUOTE]

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