Death of a President (Widescreen Edition)
by Gabriel Range
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Actor: Becky Ann Baker, Brian Boland, George W. Bush, Hend Ayoub, Michael Reilly BurkeDirector: Gabriel Range
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Producer: Gabriel Range
Writer: Gabriel Range
Producer: Christina Varotsis
Producer: Donall McCusker
Producer: Ed Guiney
Producer: Liza Marshall
Writer: Simon Finch
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Death of a President (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: October 19th, 2007 - Where will you be?
Summary: 5 Stars
Possibly no man is so universally regarded as the strongest contender in the Worst President Awards than George W. Bush. I know I certainly would nominate him. He and his administration exploited the worst tragedy in our nation's history to push their own dreams of war with Iraq, tremendous gas prices for us (generating enormous profit for them), undermining our civil liberties and sacrificing so much precious human life in the process.
And yet, as one who considers myself a very liberal Democrat and card-carrying Anti-Bushie, this film made me cry. Make no mistake: I would never want to see Bush assassinated, his horrific transgressions notwithstanding. Karma is a very real thing, and the amount of negative karma the man has accumulated will be punishment enough for him.
Now, of course, I don't need to tell you that DEATH OF A PRESIDENT is a fictional documentary about the fictional assassination of The Decider (and Darth Cheney's subsequent reign of terror.) What is amazing about the film is how emotional every last second of it is.
The suspects include an anti-war protestor, A Yemenese-American, an Iraq war vet struggling with drugs and unemployment, the vet's father who is embittered by his other son's death in Iraq, and a Syrian immigrant office worker working in a building adjacent to the location of the assassination.
No prizes for guessing which one Cheney decides to pin the rap on and subsequently convict. At least he doesn't rip the dude's head off and drink his blood, as he did with so many innocent chickens on LIL' BUSH.
No Michael Moore documentary could have stirred up more outrage the a film about the assassination of a sitting President, however unpopular. Even Hillary Clinton denounced the film. The overwhelming majority of this criticsm was sight unseen, and that's no surprise, but this is not a movie made to express a desire to kill Bush, or even one that portrays him in a particularly unfavorable light (although, from the DVD special features, I gather that the filmmakers aren't fans of his themselves.)
Indeed, it seems to be more of a warning against such a tactic to unseat such a despicable leader. We may not like our President (actually, scratch that - We DEFINITELY don't like our President), but violence can do nothing but breed more violence, as the Iraq war has shown.
But in the end, the most likable and sympathatic character in the film is the young Iraq war veteran. Having lost his own brother in the war, being disillusioned over the reasons for the war, and seen his father crumble like a house of cards at the death of his son, he tries to put the past behind him and make a new life in Chicago, the location of the assassination.
In many ways, he represents the entire country living under the rule of The Bush Administration: Wanting nothing more than to live his life in peace, the Administration's foreign and domestic policies catalyze a war that will forever alter his life, and not for the better.
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT is a well-made, often highly emotional film comibing a suspenseful politcal murder mystery with a retrospective-documentary and featuring at it's center, the heart-breaking story of a man pushed over the edge.
Summary of Death of a President (Widescreen Edition)
British director Gabriel Range (THE DAY BRITAIN STOPPED) imagines the aftereffects of the assassination of George W. Bush in this fictional documentary ("mockumentary" seems too playful a word for this relentlessly taut film) set in 2008. Range uses real news footage staged scenes (shot on high-res video but cleverly doctored to resemble grainy satellite news images and security-camera tapes) and phony talking-head interviews to create a compelling and believable thriller for the CNN generation. He even adds some whodunit elements along with philosophical musings about post-9/11 civil liberties the psychological effects of war and the multilayered impact that such a murder would have on the world.What makes Range's story so believable--in addition to the excellent performances by the "interviewees" playing FBI agents beat cops advisors and suspects--is the wide scope of political and personal viewpoints given equal voice. The president is seen as neither a hero nor a villain; his advisors and security team are loyal and even-keeled but not without their own irrational prejudices and the assassin s motives while not condoned are made to seem understandable. This is a deeply compassionate look at a fictional situation that could very well become a reality--rather than lulling viewers with escapism Range asks them to consider the consequences of the events unfolding all around them.System Requirements:Running Time: 90 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 012236212300 Manufacturer No: 21230Similar DVD Movies
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