“Trumbo” — A Menace Is Banished & Returns
And here’s one more big reason to see “Trumbo” and tell everyone: the Hollywood blacklist may now be history, or even, as it is between the flines here, low farce. But the kind of threat to free expression and public intelligence it spawned has not gone away. . . .
Trumbo” avoids the temptation to make any cheap parallels to our current plight; but they are implicit throughout.
If we’d learned anything from the Blacklist, “Trumbo” would be no more than a well-done period piece. But instead, it’s a compelling tract for the times. And if we don’t get the point now, it could end up being of timeless value.
Until they get around to banning it.