A documentary concerning the legendary sequence of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two nice public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Supposed as commentary on the problems of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters got here to outline the fashionable period of public discourse within the media, marking the large bang second of our modern media panorama when spectacle trumped content material and argument changed substance. Better of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of those two nice thinkers, and luxuriates within the language and the theater of their debates, begging the query, "What has tv carried out to the best way we talk about politics in our democracy at this time?"
