Too negative or realistic?

There was a movie in the 60's (I think) called Missing. Jack lemmon was in it. His son, who had been working in a disreputable South American country (is that possible?) had dissapeared. He went to be with his daughter-in-law and find the missing offspring. When he first got there he was very open-minded and believed some tragedy may have happened but was doing his best to be optimistic. The wife spouted what Dad referred to as left-wing "crap" and dogma about the regime there and how it was probably ultimately to blame for the disappearance. When he first heard this, Dad scolded the wife, and told her he did not want to here any more of her negative and damaging accusations against the military government and to keep "her left-wing dogma crap" to herself.

As the movie progresses, Dad and wife get deeper into the quagmire of society and run across evidence of cover-ups and government complicity in shady operatives within the military. Hope is dashed one day when they are takem to a stadium where son may or may have been and they do not spot the missing. Father's attitude starts to swing more and more towards the "left-wing" opinions of daugther-in-law until they finally find out when and where son was executed by the military. Now who's spouting this left-wing "crap"? Daddy; interesting how one's outlook can change so dramatically when going through experienes previously deemed to be lunacy prior to experiencing them one's self :)

I have been accused by some of being very very negative wrt. politics and way too suspicious of the authorities. A few years ago when it was announced there was a high-level terrorist warning for the Golden Gate bridge, my comeback was that Homeland Security was in budget negotiations with the US Treasury and they needed ammunition to justify their swelling budget ... "look ... we are defending the bridge from a level red terrorist threat; the country NEEDS our services".

Fast forward to 2010; I heard on Al Jazeera there was an oil spill in northern Italy that authorities claim was the deliberate act of terror perpetrated by individuals unknown to them so far. Ferenge's take? The facility where the oil spill originated is old and in need of shoring up to ensure there are no disasters. The owners/authorities will not spend the money to do what has to be done and let's see, spin the bottle ... a terrorist act!! Ya that's the ticket! Then we won't have to take the blame for the spill. Sweet!

Is ferenge too negative or just realistic?