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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Vantage Point quotes

  • [first lines]

    Mark Reinhart: Good morning, America. It's now 12 noon in Salamanca, Spain. In a short time, world leaders from over 150 countries meet here in Plaza Mayor to sign up to President Ashton's bold new counterterrorist strategy. Since 9/11, more than 4500 people have been killed in the rising tide of global terror. Those lives will not soon be forgotten as today, the world comes together to take a stand against this violence. We may be on the brink of a historic agreement between Western and Arab leaders. Security services are on high alert in Salamanca, where we now go live to our news team on the ground and our reporter Angie Jones.

  • [last lines]

    Mark Reinhart: Reports out of Salamanca now suggest that the President is out of intensive care. His condition is listed as stable. President Ashton has made a point of reassuring Americans that he's all right and the summit will continue in the days to come. Meanwhile, word from Spanish and United States authorities is that they've shot and killed the lone assassin responsible for today's attack. Our own Joan Kendrick has more.