The Unknown Known (2013)
Directed by Errol Morris
Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Eager impersonations of well-known sycophants fill the frame, from an overeager Carell (likable but hardly convincing; see Errol Morris’ “The Unknown Known” for context) to a straight-faced Tyler Perry as Colin Powell (fleeting and random).
Cheney would never follow Rumsfeld’s lead in sitting down for a 33-hour interview with leading documentarian, Errol Morris, In Morris’s film, The Unknown Known (2013), Rumsfeld comes across as a fantasist who takes no responsibility for his actions, and has no regrets.
Carell is almost giddily ruthless as Rumsfeld, the only character in “Vice” with fewer scruples than Dick himself (though one should really go back to Errol Morris’s “The Unknown Known” and watch the real Rumsfeld obscure the truth).