I watched Argo this morning and although its a good entertaining film its lack of historical accuracy is shocking. Only at the end as a postscript does it allude to the decisive Canadian involvement in the rescue of the American hostages in Iran. Taking the film at face value it appears that the whole victorious exercise was the sole work of the CIA. This is nearly as bad as that shameful piece of revisionism U571. Also in the film a CIA operator states that the 6 hostages went to the British & NZ embassies first and were turned away. Wrong wrong wrong! The Brits actually sheltered them for several days and the hostages only moved on to the Canadian embassy as they would have been more plausible there due to the similar accents. Also no mention is made of the New Zealand embassies help in transporting the 6 Americans to the airport. Is it ever justified to edit history in films that are based on true stories? IMO there was enough drama in what actually happened to still make a great film. Shame as Ben Affleck if he stuck to the facts could have made one of the best films of the past 20 years, a real classic that would have truly deserved the best picture Oscar. A film that the United States and Canada could both be proud of.
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