Stewart
Active Member
Has anyone else in the UK just watched Death Of A President?
It was a rather well made mockumentary, the blend of archive footage mixed with acted scenes worked well. It felt, perhaps, a little slow but all in all it told a valid enough chain of events after the assassination of George W. Bush in 2007. The manipulation of the crime by Dick Cheney to pursue his own anti-Syria agenda seemed plausible. The real food for thought, however, came from the mock interviews, where they offered insight into such tactics as media manipulation, dropping mention of al-Qaeda whenever you want to insinuate someone is the bad guy, and showed an interesting depiction of political prisoners in the US.
It was a rather well made mockumentary, the blend of archive footage mixed with acted scenes worked well. It felt, perhaps, a little slow but all in all it told a valid enough chain of events after the assassination of George W. Bush in 2007. The manipulation of the crime by Dick Cheney to pursue his own anti-Syria agenda seemed plausible. The real food for thought, however, came from the mock interviews, where they offered insight into such tactics as media manipulation, dropping mention of al-Qaeda whenever you want to insinuate someone is the bad guy, and showed an interesting depiction of political prisoners in the US.
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