Death of a President
Are the Brits really so much better at dissecting American culture than we are? Between the hilarious satire of "Borat" and now the provocative political analysis of "Death of a President," the English are doing a more thorough job of criticizing us than many of our own comedians and pundits can manage. Not that "Death of a President" is flawless. It has some things fundamentally wrong with it. Some people wonder if it was made solely to be controversial -- it's about the assassination of George W. Bush, after all -- and those people may have a point. But it goes further than just being sensationalistic, and it takes a position on America's current state of affairs that, while not new, has not been presented in quite this way before. The film is in the form of a documentary set sometime in 2009. On Oct. 19, 2007, President Bush was assassinated outside a Chicago hotel where he'd been speaking, and Islamic radicals were quickly blamed for the murder. The film shows clips from his speech and even the assassination itself (created through some nifty CGI manipulation of existing Bush footage), then moves on to the aftermath: the manhunt, the arrests, the trials.
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