Non-music discussion. Discuss things that are on your mind or things that don't have anything to do with music. Lets try to keep it clean people, there are little children present.
has anyone else seen this? got it On Demand last night, and was impressed....* i thought it was a well put together feature.
if not, here's the skinny:
Winner of the International Critics' Prize at the Toronto Film Festival," "DEATH OF A PRESIDENT" is conceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on another monstrously despicable and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The "documentary" combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews, presented in a respectful and dignified manner. Exciting and questioning, it refashions the event into a riveting story.
The film opens with the ferocious energy of a Tarantino or Oliver Stone movie, as frenetically edited archival footage thrusts us into a raging crowd of protesters, waiting for President Bush's procession. The President is portrayed as a sympathetic and likable man--beloved by those close to him and charming to his followers. As the President gives a patriotic speech inside a hotel, the demonstrators' fury increases to the breaking point. The tension mounts until the horrible instant where the President is assassinated.
After the assassination, the film shifts into the style of a mystery, and follows the FBI's hunt for the assassin. All the suspects are interviewed except one. the Syrian man who is convicted and put on death row. There is much circumstantial evidence against him. But is he guilty of the crime? Or does his being Middle Eastern provide a convenient excuse to label the death of the President as an Act of Terror?
Director Gabriel Range previously used the device of a "retrospective documentary" in his celebrated 2003 film "The Day Britain Stopped," about a chain of events that led to a breakdown of the country's transport system and nearly a hundred fatalities. Both of these films have been acclaimed for the technical virtuosity with which they combine archival footage and filmed scenes to create disturbingly real visions of catastrophes.
"Death of a President" was honored by The International Critics Prize Jury (FIPRESCI) at Toronto for "the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth."
(*and you all know i am conservative)
thoughts?
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With all due respect,...to put out a flick portraying the assassination of
a president the is still currently in office,.... uh,... even if you don't like him,..
seems a touch distasteful,,... to me..
While I more than agree with you on that, Fleek, that doesn't mean it's not distasteful or inappropriate in the eyes of some. There are things I won't watch because just knowing about them makes me want to vomit. There's this TV show called "Lost" that I won't put my eyes anywhere near. It doesn't mean I can't think it's a steaming pile of sh*t
Garr wrote:that doesn't mean it's not distasteful or inappropriate in the eyes of some.
I think every single thing in the world falls under this category. No matter what, someone is going to get their panties in a bunch over it.
I don't watch/support things that don't appeal to me. Comic book movies, sci-fi, AC/DC, etc. Everyone should do the same instead of going in, knowing it may piss you off and then playing the "I'm offended" card.
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