Americans have a bit of entertaining spirit, and even the president can take it over to ridicule and tease. Of course, being entertained is also a fate that public figures cannot escape. If you don't shabu, who do you shabu? Fortunately, this is in the United States. If this type of subject matter is placed on our side, according to Stone's shooting method, it is estimated that not only will not pass the censorship of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, but even the script will not pass the censorship of "major themes."
Of course, the President of the United States is elected by the American people one vote by one vote. It is a choice of the American people. Therefore, he has to and cannot but bear the American people’s arrogant nose and eyeballs, even joking and cursing, even if it is smashed. You have to endure a few rotten eggs or rotten tomatoes, even being thrown on shoes by the Iraqi people. It is precisely because of this that a person like Bush can become the president of the United States and serve two consecutive terms.
Whether you like Bush or not, you can't help but admit that this guy still has two brushes, and he really dares to be a cowboy. Bush has stepped down. People have said too much about his merits and demerits. In the end, history will make a fair evaluation regardless of praise or criticism, or the old saying, let time speak. The current evaluation is just a matter of urgency. After a few years, I will look back and examine what Bush did when he was in office. Perhaps the evaluation will be more fair and fair. After all, as the President of the United States, his attempts and actions to maintain the United States’ world hegemony are understandable. ——The leader of which country does not want his country to be arrogant and have the right to speak in today’s world? Besides, the country led by Bush is called the United States.
In my opinion, President Bush was a bit miserable. He suffered from 9/11 shortly after taking office, and then the two endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When he stepped down, he encountered the financial tsunami and the unprecedented financial tsunami. financial crisis. To be honest, I was tired for him. Although many people don’t think of Bush as that, I think it’s not easy for him to survive the eight years of his presidential career. What's more, Comrade Bush seems to be alive and well. You should raise your dog and raise your eyebrows and wink your eyebrows and wink. The ground has also come.
Although Stone's film is a bit ridiculous, there is no lack of sincerity and sympathy in it. Unlike the pessimism and gloom when describing Kennedy and Nixon, this biography of Bush Jr. is relatively clear and cheerful. The highlight of the film is Bush’s decision-making process for launching the Iraq War. Important fragments of his life are interspersed with him, including his alcoholism, absurdity, and ineffectiveness in his youth, as well as his “reform and reformation” of abstinence from alcohol and conversion to the Methodist Church. At the same time, from Stone The angle reveals the relationship between him and his father, President Bush Sr., Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Powell, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Rice, his wife Laura and others. It should be admitted that the image of Bush in the film is relatively full and three-dimensional, which allows us who are far from the United States to have a new understanding of Bush.
According to Stone, with the exception of a few dreams in the film, everything else in the film is based on reliable facts and information, based on a detailed study of Bush. Although Stone is not a supporter of Bush, he still has some sympathy in the ridicule and ridicule. For example, the film attributed Bush’s Iraq war to Bush and his staff’s sincere desire and idealism for freedom and peace. It is not based on ambition and deceit, which is widely believed to be based on ambition and deception. Another example is the description of the relationship between Bush and his father, Bush. He even resisted his father's efforts. From the film, you can also see that Bush, who is presented to the world in an image of self-confidence, even arrogance, and toughness, seems to have always been deeply troubled by insecurity.
Whether you like Bush or not, you can’t help but admit that Bush is actually more of a "person" than Mr. President. When you see him winking and making faces in front of the media camera, you see him mixing with people without hesitation. Hooking up your shoulders and carrying a back cover is almost, you will feel that this is not Mr. President but the third uncle and the second uncle in the alley. Stone’s film deepens this impression. Bush, who was born with a silver spoon, is actually very civilian and even a little vulgar. This also narrows the distance between Bush and the general public, although there is bulletproof glass in between. And the large group of bodyguards from the Secret Service.
What is intriguing is the beginning and the end of the film. At the beginning, young Bush wearing a sports jacket is standing on an empty and sunny baseball field, facing the empty auditorium, raising his arms high. , The voice-over is the host of President Bush’s inauguration introducing Bush’s appearance and the cheers of the crowd; at the end, Bush sits leisurely on the sofa, drinking beer and eating doughnuts while teasing his pet dog while watching TV In the live broadcast of a baseball game in China, the batter hit the ball on TV, and the camera immediately switched to the baseball field. It was still empty, except that the sun was no longer and the stadium lights were dazzling at night. Bush in a suit and leather wears a baseball glove. Staring at the direction of the baseball, he quickly backed up and ran to catch the ball. However, the ball disappeared into the sky and never fell. At this time, Bush, who had retreated to the edge of the field, looked blank. He looked up endlessly. In the night sky, he looked up at the camera, and the camera quickly moved towards his eyes. Those blue eyes were filled with confusion and hesitation. There was no sound at this time, and after a few seconds, a brisk singing sounded, "The End", and the screen was blank. Okay? Well, Oliver Stone deserves to be Oliver Stone.
At this time, sitting on the chair in the Oval Office of the White House with the warmth of Bush’s ass was a black man named Obama. He is leading this great country. Faced with the mess left by Bush, he shouted "Restart, clean up the old mountains and rivers", but he may also be at a loss. Change is easy to say but hard to do.
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