Point of Order

Point of Order was a very interesting movie. The clips they showed from the trial provided a lot of information from what happened at the whole trial. Emile de Antonio did a good job of picking out the right footage from the hours he had to chose from. He started out showing one side, then would give glimpses of the rebuttal and the other points. He did a good job of showing how both sides felt, but yet left room for others to interpret what they thought should have been done.

McCarthy often went off saying he had names of those who were communists, yet never provided any proof. In class we mentioned how it was like a witch hunt, and it really was. He would go off and say he knew the names of many people that were communists but could never prove it. He never provided the list, and never said why he thought they were. In the witch trials there was never a way to prove that those women were witches. In a sense McCarthy was a witch hunter.

Those who followed McCarthy probably found safety in his words, thinking they would never want a communist in control of their government or army. They thought he would never lie to them, and was coming out with the truth to out the government. Point of Order essentially showed the world what was really going on behind closed doors with the McCarthy trial. The montage video of the trial showed the highlights of what was a very long trial.