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Dig into the life of Dalton Trumbo who rebels his way through the Hollywood Blacklist and breaks it! Bryan Cranston knocks this role out of the park! Since the character is a writer, certain personal dialogues and comebacks are sterling. Helen Mirren as Hedda Hopper is tip-top.
The political affairs in the beginning of the film are snail-paced, resulting in a dull progression. But, the surmounting activities of the lead character after a period of jail parole is intriguing. One gets to see how he works with pseudonyms and rolls back into the screenwriting business by writing and fixing stuff. Whenever a famous script or movie is referenced, excitement oozes!
Anything good, could be better. The son and daughters of the protagonist grows up superfast in the span of a year! Not until the end of the picture do we see proper aging effect, as there are only grey hair to show so in the beginning. Occasionally, personas would speak or appear like how individuals would in contemporary times.
"The radical may fight with the purity of Jesus. But the rich guy wins with the cunning of Satan."