He struck a curious balance - his tone almostpleading for Congress and the nation to rally behind his unpopular plan to send more troops, but his words refusing to yield anything substantive to his critics.
Zenovich is particularly good at showing the legal system to be driven by personality and by media politics, but she does Polanski no favors by dwelling on his difficult past (as if pleading for mercy from the viewer) and yet selecting archival clips in which he comes off as almost solipsistically remorseless.