Posted by
Michael on Monday, October 09, 2006 9:24:49 PM
There's a
short clip from Death of a President up
on YouTube right now, followed up by a clip of an interview with the
director. Towards the end, he denounces the critique that imaging the
President being gunned down is offensive.
I know it parts ways
with how many people who read this blog feel, but I do not have
animosity with the making of this film. Maybe it's my love for
alternate history. I think "what if" scenarios are great for political
storytelling. What if Kennedy hadn't been assasinated? What if Reagan
had died after the assasination attempt on his life? What if Clinton's
fooling around had not come out during his Presidency?
The list goes on....
From the clip that I saw, it doesn't look much like the lefty porn of
Fahrenheit 9/11 and the like.
UPDATE: Two US film distributors
refuse to show the film:Two of America's biggest cinema chains, Regal and Cinemark, have
refused to screen the controversial UK-produced Death of a President
when it is released later this month.
Terrell Falk, a spokesperson
for Cinemark, told the Guardian: "The assassination of a sitting
president is problematic subject matter."