Watching the US elections from 10 000 miles away (FYI: CNN was talking Monday as if everyone hated Bush and was going to vote him out, and they were discussing why. Earth to CNNInt: The election was Tuesday. )
It's starting to remind one of the Philippines, where a dozen people each election are shot arguing politics, and my niece was threatened with death simply because she was a poll worker.
It's early AM here, but no hard news yet, so I am surfing film sites, and came across a good review of the controversial film "Death of a president"...LINK...
I expected, and not for no reason, for it to be an exhortatory "let's assassinate the bastard" film, a wish-fulfillment fantasy of Bushitleretardespot aka Dubya McChimpburton finally getting what murdering, torturing liars deserve....What I saw was a formally brilliant film, one that uses the conventions of the History Channel special (by coincidence, I've been watching them a lot recently) to create a gripping thriller to the point of the crime and then an interesting police procedural thereafter -- a structure rather like Akira Kurosawa's great film HIGH AND LOW.....
I won't see it, but it makes you wonder how many reviewers actually saw the film...
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