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Butler, not surprisingly, believes his friend would make an excellent president, and when he talked about Kerry last week, as part of a prerelease publicity push, he occasionally veered from enthusiasm into something like hero worship. ("In the last 30 days of this campaign, he's going to transform himself into Superman, mark my words.") The two haven't talked much in recent months and Butler says there are campaign laws that make it awkward for him to discuss the movie with the candidate. Kerry called on Memorial Day, according to Butler, and when asked if he knew anything about "Upriver" he replied, "Next to nothing, George."
The absence of naysayers, and Butler's friendship with Kerry, will no doubt lead Republicans to dismiss "Going Upriver" as sophisticated agitprop disguised as an evenhanded account of the facts. But if this is a campaign movie, it's a pretty unconventional one: It never mentions Kerry's campaign for the presidency, nor is there any recent video or audio of Kerry. There's little critical here, but Butler, in the interview, mentions details that a dedicated lionizer would have left out (that some members of the VVAW thought Kerry was a spotlighthogging stiff, for instance). Most of the movie is just unblinking archival film and photographs of the fighting in Vietnam and of Kerry's brief, impassioned career in the antiwar movement.
Butler was an eyewitness to the second half of the story told in "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry," which opened yesterday in Washington. The movie starts by recounting Kerry's fourmonth tour on a Swift boat in Vietnam, then traces his decision to speak out against the fighting and his subsequent involvement with a group called Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In 1971, the organization gathers in Detroit for a series of anguished firstperson testimonials, and a few months later, there is a tense but successful march in Washington, where Kerry and hundreds of other disillusioned vets demand that Congress bring home the troops. atrocities in Vietnam were commonplace. For several weeks the campaign for the presidency was about little else. Kerry's service record was reexamined and the allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, as the antiKerry force called itself, were given a vigorous frisking.
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