watched a terrific movie last night on dvd, Shattered Glass which i had been wanting to watch for years. turns out my instincts about wanting to watch it were dead-on. great movie and made me love peter sarsgaard even more. what a great actor! but i digress...

the movie is about the true story of a writer who conned various mainstream news publications, including the new republic where he worked full-time, by creating completely fabricated articles that sounded really good and seemed just oh-so-got-to-be-true. i can totally relate to it even with knowing they're fake because seeing their headlines and reading the pieces now (including the infamous 'hack heaven' in which he got caught-- through this online article) sound so real and common-knowledge. anyway, the great addition to the dvd was the 60 minutes piece where he was interviewed a few years later and the editor who fired him and others had great rants about him and how they were fooled.

the other fun thing about all of this is that the movie seems so close to the reality of what happened then. upon seeing the 60 minutes piece and reading the articles i've linked above and reading more about what happened online, i feel like i was there from having watched the movie. it's a fascinating moment in time and the a terrific warning to everyone to wonder about what reality is.