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Rosewater - Film Review

An American television comic made a directorial debut with this film.  His name is Jon Stewart.  While his comedy is largely political satire that I do not enjoy as much as mundane observations about the species made famous by Seinfeld, he is a razor wit and liked by many TV viewing audiences.  I might just have to watch some of his archived product esp since he has announced retirement from his show later this year. With this film Stewart has adapted a story of an Iranian Canadian journalist,  Maziar Bahari working for Newsweek magazine and covering the 2009 (re) election of Ahmadinejad as the country's ruler. Maziar is in Iran for the story and one morning gets picked up from his home by Iran Revolutionary Guard and jailed and later told he is a spy for the Western governments of Britain and USA.  Iran concludes this based on a silly interview Maziar did for a comic (while in Iran) pretending to be a Western spy. While the movie is a narra...