Death of a President

[rebelworker]

I just downloaded it. I highly recomend it.

[KC]

Is this that highly controversial film that shows Bush getting assassinated?

[Martin Blank]

Yeah, it is. I have a copy of it too, and I second rebelworker's endorsement.

Miles

[Jhé]

I saw this on E4 the other day, the blend of real and fake events was well done especially the speeches. I found the ending more realistic than i thought it would be, instead of some physoctic nutter killing him for no reason at all it was a man with a perferctly comphrendable motive...

Apparently only one US broadcaster said they might show the film, the rest said no :P

[loveme4whoiam]

Theres a showing of this film going on somewhere in my town on Monday, I'll be going if only I can find the place.

[Comrade J]

I remember seeing this advertised here in the UK on TV the other day, but I missed the showing of it. I have just searched for it on Google Videos, here if anyone wants to watch it:

Death Of A President (http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3487058093534949972&q=death+of+a+president)

[Sean]

It was certainly contraversial, but if actually you dissect it, it doesn't say a hell of a lot.

The main point of it, if I remember correctly (I watched it when it was first aired) was that various people were suspects, and in the end it was an ex-soldier who did it, but it was more of a 'bring our troops home' kind of morality, rather than the blatently obvious "it was a capitalist monstrousity and wrong to ever do so". The latter most certainly would never have been aired by any channel wishing to keep its sponsors, but would have been closer to the truth.

One point I felt it genuinely got across was the fact that despite who really 'killed' him, the administration would stick to a line that would serve their own interests. So, it was an important, if watered down critique, my only fear with such things is that the general public feel that it hit the nail on the head completely, when it missed (dodged) the point entirely over why he's less than popular outside the US.

[Organic Revolution]

i was in this movie, most of it was filmed in chicago... im in all the parts were there is a black bloc.... eek

[LSD]

I saw it and, to be honest, I was bored.

The "Bush assisination" footage is a neat visual trick, but overall I found myself disinterested. If you're going to write fictional history, at least make it compelling fiction.

A "controversial" theme isn't enough, you've still got to have a good story.

And insofar as making a political point, sorry, but I didn't see it. Bush is bad 'cause he "won't bring our boys home"? Come 'on, if I want to hear that crap, I can just turn to CNN.

[Red October]

i dont think it was just a "bring the troops home" point. the guy killed bush because he thought bush had corrupted everything that was supposed to be good about america. he accused the iraq war of being based on lies and evil. its not just about bringing troops home.

[which doctor]

Well, it certainly is an interesting scenario, and a very controversial one too. I'm quite glad the film was made. Although it probably won't keep you on the edge of your seat, I enjoyed watching it.