None But the Brave

Marc Crispin Miller on HBO’s RECOUNT in the Huffington Post:
…However, it is at the very end that Recount cops out most egregiously. The last shot is a great one: a grim Kubrickian view down a long corridor, with floor-to-ceiling shelves on either side, all loaded up with crates of ballots — ballots that had not been counted at the time. And yet, of course, those ballots were counted eventually, by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, with the help of all the nation’s leading media outlets; and what they ultimately found was that, by every standard, Al Gore won. Again: If all the ballots in the state of Florida were counted, Al Gore won — a fact that goes unmentioned at that final moment, as that great shot fades to black without an epilogue.
See also: Miller’s blog, with reprints of first-person accounts from Florida.