This week, we prove that we can handle the truth in Rob Reiner’s 1992 movie A Few Good Men. Who is victorious over the Aaron Sorkin dialogue? What does the film have to say about the American military machine? Whatever happened to Noah Wyle?

Content warning: violence, murder, homophobic language, misogynistic language, cult activity, human trafficking, child abuse, domestic abuse, kidnapping, Scientology

Unanswered Questions:

• Is Daniel Kaffee a hero?
  
  
• How does the film feel about the Marine Corps? Does it see Jessup as a bad apple, or the product of a flawed system? Do we see Sorkin’s conservative belief in the system, in America, in action in this story?
  
  
• Is Jo Galloway a typical Sorkin heroine?
  
  
• Is Daniel Kaffee… spunky?
  

Further reading:

• Rooney Mara in The Social Network
  
  
• L. Ron Hubbard
  
  
• Jack Parsons
  
  
• David Miscavige
  
  
• The Flag Building
  
  
• Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me (Ron Miscavige)
  
  
• Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Leah Remini)
  
  
• Guantanamo Bay
  
  
• “Allow myself to introduce… myself.”
  
  
• “Not While I’m Around” (From Sweeney Todd) (From The Morning Show)
  
  
• Hogwarts Legacy
  

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