YMMV / Truth (2015)

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Were Mary Mapes and Dan Rather simply following a lead and got hoodwinked by a con man? Were they rabid partisans willing to use forged documents to influence a presidential election? Or were they martyrs who were hounded out of their jobs for exposing a truth certain powerful people tried to hide?
  • Were the CBS executives conducting a diligent search to find out how a well-respected news anchor and news producer fell victim to a con artist? Were they simply throwing Mapes and Rather under the bus to deflect attention from their own incompetence? Or were they trying to scuttle the story to get political favors from the President and his party?
    • The memos were questionable at best right from the get-go. Between the partisan slant that CBS had already adopted in favor of Gore and the evidence they already had indicating that they weren't authentic, it's hard not to see them as being driven by ideology and/or stupidity.
  • While much issue was made at the time of release about how the film supposedly takes Mary and Dan's account that the memos were actually real in order to turn them into martyrs persecuted for telling the truth, one could easily also interpret the film depicting Mary, Dan, and their team as being deeply in denial that they were swindled and being either too prideful or too ashamed to admit they might've screwed up and made a mistake.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Lucy is played by the very talented and well-known Elisabeth Moss, could've brought a unique perspective to the case as a journalism professor, and she even shows hints of a developing friendship with Roger and Mike in the interactions she shares with either character. However, she basically stops appearing in the film after the initial investigation is over and isn't even present in most of the scenes where the rest of team all get together. Overall, she comes across as a waste of an accomplished actress and a potentially interesting character.

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