The death of the president is a pseudo-documentary that caused a commotion at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. The film fictionalizes the plot of the assassination of US President George Bush on October 12, 2007. Based on this, a documentary was filmed to show the assassination. The whole story and the aftermath of the death of the president for American society. It is not a new method to explore contemporary political and social hot issues through fictional plots. The film’s director, Gabriel Range, filmed a pseudo-documentary "The Day Britain Stopped" with the background of the British transportation system paralyzed. This time it was just a repeat of the old trick, but it's a pity that George Bush is really a big horse. The attack on the director’s “bold” grandstanding came immediately, and it also prompted us to start to reflect: when we see dead bodies, explosions, the destruction of cities, and refugees, it becomes easy for us to judge the bottom line of morality, but when we But it is difficult to judge the bottom line of the media, all the ridicule and irony, the wanton pouring of thoughts, have we walked out of the free paradise delineated by human nature, have we fallen into another in the resistance to disorder? The abyss of sin. When the teasing of President Bush is just an eye-catching trick, is it time to sound the alarm?
Obviously, the director and distributor of the film are enjoying the controversy and turmoil brought about by the incitement of the film. It is too late to think about these issues, let alone realize that the first 20 minutes of the film has become a second-rate TV documentary program. Fortunately, the director is not really a wine bag. After gradually entering the topic, the film shows a rational, cautious and even somewhat depressed rhythm. Whether it is the moment the president is shot or the moment of confirmation of death, there is no sensationalism. Interviews in the film have been made. The security, the secretary of state, cabinet members, police inspectors, protest participants, and assassination suspects, etc., did not show any sorrow when talking about the death of the president. Even the sad expression of the news broadcaster clearly revealed a disguise. Illusion. The director treats the death of the president completely as part of a political event. After the president was assassinated, the film began to reproduce a post-911 disaster: ordinary people’s lives were broken, Muslims were the first to suffer suspicion, all kinds of people disappeared from the crowds around them and were thrown into prison. In the gloom; the law is changed to give the CIA and the police more powers of supervision and detention, it seems impatient to deprive the foundation of this country established in the cry of democracy and freedom; and the police are more anxious. Investigators, the emergence of a perfect suspect made them rush to the case, ignoring the lack of evidence; the new government under Cheney continues the most notorious political method of the Bush era-creating "facts" to satisfy The predicted conclusion is that the victim this time is poor Syria.
Although the film shows the director's thoughts on a series of explosions in American society after 9/11, his arguments are just clichés, sincerity is praised, but there is no depth at all. Even for an Anti-Bush molecule, the film is just a dessert that makes people indigestible. After a short period of sweetness, only high-calorie, high-sugar and high-cholesterol residues are left.
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