The Current War: Low-voltage drama
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The Current War
Direction: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
Fiction demands willing suspension of disbelief, and that s from long before humankind discovered electricity. The Current War is pitched as a historical drama that introduces a few plot points that have been debated by experts chief among them being a couple of meetings between the film s protagonists, Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), shown in the film. Many argue there is no documented evidence the two ever met.
You could counter that, of course, arguing there is no documented evidence to the contrary either. And in any case, never mind that the film is pitched as historical drama, we understand that history has never really been Hollywood s strongest subjects. We will take the War with a pinch of salt.