Live! Assassination

Randi 2022-03-23 09:01:45

Looking at the introduction, this is a film about assassinating the president of the United States. I don’t know how many such films have been made in Hollywood, but this film can still give people a refreshing feeling.
A story, told from many different angles, has been shot in this way before. However, putting it on such a tense and exciting story of the assassination of the president still increases the watchability of the film. Bodyguards, journalists, tourists, presidents, assassins, different people see different things in their eyes. Often things that are not explained in the first paragraph will be understood through the second angle, and then some suspense will be left for the third paragraph. This way, the plot slowly penetrates and unfolds, and it is very clever to make your eyes inseparable. The screen is up. How the assassination was planned, what happened when the assassination happened, and how did it end like this? Without watching the full film, these questions cannot be answered. Coupled with the mass panic effect of the assassination itself, the two explosions and the car chase scene from the first perspective make this seemingly clichéd movie different from the previous pure action movies.
As someone from a country with a different ideology, I appreciate this kind of joke about the president of the United States. But think about it carefully, this film is for American politics. On the one hand, he continued to advocate the theory of terrorist threats. On the other hand, the image of the president in the film is also a bodhisattva. He even refused the request of the staff to launch military operations, which can cater to the psychology of some anti-war factions. Winning the box office and promoting American politics, intentionally or unintentionally, is a win-win.
What's a little confusing is that the terrorists in the film, why didn't they just collapse the president? Of course, if it collapses, there will be no drama behind it. Also, such a well-organized plan finally failed to avoid killing a little girl. Are the previous scenes of terrorists killing people fake? In addition, let's chill the writer's imagination. Five people and a few Sony products will dismantle the US presidential security system. How happy would bin Laden be if he saw it, anyway, a movie is a movie after all.

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Extended Reading
  • Alyce 2021-11-20 08:01:27

    Good idea, but average effect

  • Karley 2022-04-23 07:01:49

    Very good, I like multiple perspectives, and finally tell the story as a whole, it's not boring at all, Hao Wen and I watched it for an hour and a half nervously

Vantage Point quotes

  • Rex Brooks: [after she realizes Angie is going off topic about the protestors in Spain] What is she doing? Kevin, shut her down.

    [Kevin cuts the camera]

    Mark Reinhart: [confused] Thanks for that report, Angie.

    Rex Brooks: Angie, what the hell was that?

    Angie Jones: Not everyone loves us, Rex.

    Rex Brooks: Save the punditry for someone whose paid to have an opinion.

    Angie Jones: I'm cool with censorship, I know the American people love that.

    Rex Brooks: [smiles] Come on, Angie. Lighten up.

    Angie Jones: Got it!

  • Rex Brooks: [sees a camera focused on protesters] Who's the clown on Two? Camera Two, are you gonna move or what? We're here for the summit, not the sideshow! I swear it's like training a freakin' dog!