Errol Morris’ THE UNKNOWN KNOWN Trailer

I don’t know why, but for some reason I find that Donald Rumsfeld has one of the most punchable faces I’ve ever seen.  That being said, director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) decided to make an entire documentary about the man, making me question what I’ll do when I see his face on a giant screen.  The Unknown Known acts as an intimate portrait of the man, and is definitely has me intrigued, despite the face punching.

The film is set for theaters April 2, hit the jump for the trailer and synopsis.

 

In THE UNKNOWN KNOWN, Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (THE FOG OF WAR) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, one of the key architects of the Iraq War, and a larger-than-life character who provoked equal levels of fury and adulation from the American public. Rather than conducting a conventional interview, Morris has Rumsfeld perform and expound on his “snowflakes,” tens of thousands of memos (many never previously published) he composed as a congressman and as an advisor to four different presidents, twice as Secretary of Defense. These memos provide a window onto history—not history as it actually happened, but history as Rumsfeld wants us to see it. Morris makes plain that Rumsfeld’s “snowflakes”—whether intended to elucidate, rationalize, obfuscate, or control history—are contradicted by the facts.