But because Senator McCain has said he may run again in 2008, the film, like the memoir he published in 1999, is also a powerful campaign spot - a reminder that this potential presidential candidate comes with a wallop of a résumé. His is a harrowing, almost incomprehensible story of endurance, and one that would be far less known had he not gone into politics and run for president in 2000. Senator McCain, the Arizona Republican, spent five and half years in captivity, most of it in solitary confinement, and was repeatedly tortured by his North Vietnamese guards.
It is not complex or richly textured, because Memorial Day is not the time or place for psychological analysis or novelist interpretation. "Faith of My Fathers," a Memorial Day movie based on Senator John McCain's best-selling memoir about his experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, is, fittingly enough, like a visit to Arlington National Cemetery: it is a respectful, moving view of a veteran's effort to pay respects to his family and fellow P.O.W.'s.
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