This movie is a complete package - presidential misconduct, dedicated covert operations, complaint news media and a 'stupid' Hollywood producer! The movie seems very realistic and straight from the headlines !
It is time for re-election and the president of US is in trouble because of allegations of sexual misconduct! So this anonymous spin doctor, after learning about it at an airport terminal, while waiting for a flight, decides to save the president by diverting attention from the main issues! He contacts a Hollywood producer and they manufacture a story about a bomb from the country of Albania that is about to enter the US via Canada and US efforts to save a war prisoner from there. The happy team creates segments of the whole story in a studio which is fed to the compliant TV media!They hire a young actress, dressed in traditional Albanian costume,to represent the suffering Albanians. The so called war hero is really a criminal on drugs who gets shot while being transported on the 'rescue' plane. The story is then changed to say that he is now a martyr with appropriate shots of a military burial on TV!
After the dust has settled and the 'emergency' is over, the Hollywood producer decides to confess that he produced the whole thing in a studio ! Next we find this producer dead having suffered a 'massive' heart attack !!The president makes guest appearances, with the seriousness of a clergyman, on TV when it is time to inform and 'appeal' to the public.
This is not a fast-paced, loud Hollywood type of movie. R. DeNiro and D. Hoffman act without any make up on and their uncut hair, bad teeth etc plus the acting and dialogue make them appear very down to earth. The supporting cast of Anne H. and others does a commendable job!!
This raises questions in my mind, as a common man, is this how politics works these days ? Is everything manufactured to pull wool over the eyes of the innocent public ? In my personal life, sometimes this seems so, ever since I entered the 'big' league of lawyers, money managers and big technology companies !
Do you still want me to trust everyone ? [Once I even had a 'visual' of a handsome sardarji resemble Osama, after Osama was reported dead !!]
It is time for re-election and the president of US is in trouble because of allegations of sexual misconduct! So this anonymous spin doctor, after learning about it at an airport terminal, while waiting for a flight, decides to save the president by diverting attention from the main issues! He contacts a Hollywood producer and they manufacture a story about a bomb from the country of Albania that is about to enter the US via Canada and US efforts to save a war prisoner from there. The happy team creates segments of the whole story in a studio which is fed to the compliant TV media!They hire a young actress, dressed in traditional Albanian costume,to represent the suffering Albanians. The so called war hero is really a criminal on drugs who gets shot while being transported on the 'rescue' plane. The story is then changed to say that he is now a martyr with appropriate shots of a military burial on TV!
After the dust has settled and the 'emergency' is over, the Hollywood producer decides to confess that he produced the whole thing in a studio ! Next we find this producer dead having suffered a 'massive' heart attack !!The president makes guest appearances, with the seriousness of a clergyman, on TV when it is time to inform and 'appeal' to the public.
This is not a fast-paced, loud Hollywood type of movie. R. DeNiro and D. Hoffman act without any make up on and their uncut hair, bad teeth etc plus the acting and dialogue make them appear very down to earth. The supporting cast of Anne H. and others does a commendable job!!
This raises questions in my mind, as a common man, is this how politics works these days ? Is everything manufactured to pull wool over the eyes of the innocent public ? In my personal life, sometimes this seems so, ever since I entered the 'big' league of lawyers, money managers and big technology companies !
Do you still want me to trust everyone ? [Once I even had a 'visual' of a handsome sardarji resemble Osama, after Osama was reported dead !!]
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