Having not drunk that much in a while today has proven somewhat painful.
However I do want to talk about death of a president which I saw last night. Very good stuff – quite chilling, especially as it plays itself so straight that I couldn’t quite tell whether they were taking the piss at times or not. It’s ending – with the idea that the guilty in modern America is not always who did it but who makes us feel safer by blaming casts a very uncomfortable light on our modern world. This is because while from the distance of a film we can see the ‘truth’ – such as it is presented to us, I know people who in the real world who would prefer the answer to George W.’s assassin that the U.S. in this film accepts rather than the more uncomfortable less politicaly-charged answer. The subtle critiques of the patriot act and its ilk are also very interesting viewing.
Kevin | 21-Nov-06 at 8:58 pm | Permalink
Bleh.
I thought it far from interesting; juvenile, for me, was a more appropriate description. Didn’t it strike you as a tad, er, malicious as well? As if the writers wouldn’t particularly mind if Bush was, you know, done away with? What’s more, the ending wasn’t especially thought provoking: it adhered to the standard Moorian line. Innocent foreign guy is found guilty of the President’s murder; it’s not so much the truth (or, say, what would happen), as much as it is what some fairly nutty American leftists would hope for, in order to satsify their view of Bush. It wasn’t the distance of the film that made it so clear, it was that the film was so fallaciously and blatantly firm in its opinion of what would happen.