Flash of Genius, which released in U.S. theatres today, is a lovely David vs Goliath movie based on the real life story of college professor and inventor Robert Kearns’s battle against auto giant Ford Motor Company.
Gregory Kinnear stars as the doughty fighter Bob Kearns who battles the then mighty but now feeble car maker Ford for stealing his ideas for an intermittent windshield wiper.
Simply put, Flash of Genius is a story well told and one of the best movies we’ve watched this year.
Flash of Genius arrives at an apposite moment in America – a few obscenely greedy and stupid scumbags on Wall Street and elsewhere have brought the nation’s economy to its knees prompting the U.S. government to rescue the same rogue financial institutions in a $700 billion bail out using the tax-payer’s money.
Big American corporations whether Enron, Worldcom, ADM, Union Carbide or Ford have always behaved with impunity and reckless disregard and disdain of the consequences of their actions on the average man. Nothing has changed in this respect.
So in an era where the average individual has been all but crushed into acquiescence by Big Business through the brute force of money and power, it’s nice to see an occasional battle where the little guy vanquishes the ugly, evil corporation.
Greg Kinnear is a good actor. Whether as a family man, or the man obsessed with bringing the folks at Ford to justice – despite the heavy odds -for stealing his idea, Kinnear throws in a powerful performance in Flash of Genius that may well land him an Oscar nomination. Continue reading »
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