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Saturday July 21, 2007 - 11:40 AM
Absolutely Amazing!
I love how it was a mocumentry !!
It was very believable 
Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 1:02 PM
the opening scene with the rioting crowds felt very liberating, though I dislike how they depicted all the protestors as street punks and skinheads O_o
Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 12:21 PM
Though I express my disdain for George W. Bush openly, I'm actually not big on political depictions on screen, and certainly not in a documentary format (mockumentary in this case of course) However I was fascinated by this film.
an interesting perspective taken as many of the interviewees are employees of the president and secret service and supporters of this man. they speak neutrally to convey the events but you also sense the warmth they feel towards their president
they touch on many of the issues of media, scapegoating, power of government, what may or may not be construed as racial profiling, etc (I can't list specific examples without giving away too much of the film) but delicately so as to not make the film come across as propaganda.
it focuses on people affected by these events rather on the death of the man himself. excellent work of stark portrayals and social commentary.
Saturday October 28, 2006 - 2:40 PM
i cant really review much after the previous to mine, except to say it was so well done that i really think ppl should give it a watch!
Saturday October 28, 2006 - 12:10 PM
Death of a President (2006)
Directed by:
Gabriel Range
Writing credits:
Simon Finch
Gabriel Range
Tagline: Do not rush to judge.
Plot Outline: Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/)
Your Digital Jesus' Review: Death Of a President portrays the fictional assassination of George W Bush in October of 2007 while attending a conference at the Sheraton hotel in Chicago.
The film itself is made up of mostly old footage of President Bush and Vice President Cheney (and cronies) and seamlessly connected new material.
Watching DOAP is like watching something on A&E with a "Cold Case Files" feel to it. Scenes are narrated by various law enforcement officers, presidential staff, "witnesses" and scenes are pretexted with mock interviews of the narrator. Of course these people aren't actually who they say they are but for a low budget independent film the acting was very believable, as i mentioned before, its like watching A&E.
There is a lot of controversy surrounding this movie ever since its release at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Many people have said that its inappropriate and "unamerican" to portray the death of a current president, As a result many conservative media tycoons have successfully had this movie pulled from several theatre chains across the US, to date no Canadian theatre chains have expressed any concern over this film (as far as i know).
Many people have said that this movie is another "Michael Mooring" of The American President. I found that the film showed no partisanship to either Right or Left, Liberal or Democrat. The Bill O'Rieley's of the world demonised this movie for portraying the assassination of the president but the movie isn't focused on the assassination, more the global impact of bush's death and how it was used as a tool to propagate the current American "Culture of Fear" and turn the "Land of the Free" into some Quasi-democratic police state.
There's not much more i can say without spoiling the movie so i'll end this. For those of you who are interested in politics, you probably already want to see this movie. For those of you who aren't, ESPECIALLY Americans, i strongly recommend this. Its a hypothetical situation but the political, legal and social consequences are all entirely logical and possible given the track record of the current American Administration.
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