The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Williams provides contextual background to Errol Morris's ninth feature documentary, pointing out that '[T]he relationship between McNamara and a whole generation of post-Vietnam spectators is mediated by Errol Morris as interviewer. Not only is ir Morris's role to ask questions of McNamara in the film's extended and intense interviewsequences, it is also Morris, as a representative of that generation, a fellow protester and anti-Vietnam war activist who participates in the film himself.' Williams analyses the narrative structure of the documentary, discusses the historical realm and places special emphasis on the notion of self-reflexivity in Morris's film.