| シカゴを訪れたブッシュ大統領が何者かに銃で撃たれて暗殺される。 犯人としてシリアからの移民が逮捕され、大統領を引き継いだチェイニーはシリアとの臨戦態勢に入る……。 by ベイエリア在住町山智浩アメリカ日記 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/TomoMachi/20061030 internet movie databaseによると、2007年10月ブッシュ大統領が暗殺されたストーリーをブッシュ大統領の実写を交えて、ノンフィクションタッチで制作されているという。 Opens: 10.27.06 NEWMARKET FILMS and FILM4 DEATH OF A PRESIDENT Directed by Gabriel Range Winner, International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) Winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Toronto Film Festival,” “DEATH OF A PRESIDENT” is conceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on another monstrously despicable and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The “documentary” combines archival footage and carefully composed interviews, presented in a respectful and dignified manner. Exciting and questioning, it refashions the event into a riveting story. The film opens with the ferocious energy of a Tarantino or Oliver Stone movie, as frenetically edited archival footage thrusts us into a raging crowd of protesters, waiting for President Bush’s procession. The President is portrayed as a sympathetic and likable man—beloved by those close to him and charming to his followers. As the President gives a patriotic speech inside a hotel, the demonstrators’ fury increases to the breaking point. The tension mounts until the horrible instant where the President is assassinated. After the assassination, the film shifts into the style of a mystery, and follows the FBI’s hunt for the assassin. All the suspects are interviewed except one—the Syrian man who is convicted and put on death row. There is much circumstantial evidence against him. But is he guilty of the crime? Or does his being Middle Eastern provide a convenient excuse to label the death of the President as an Act of Terror? Director Gabriel Range previously used the device of a “retrospective documentary” in his celebrated 2003 film “The Day Britain Stopped,” about a chain of events that led to a breakdown of the country’s transport system and nearly a hundred fatalities. Both of these films have been acclaimed for the technical virtuosity with which they combine archival footage and filmed scenes to create disturbingly real visions of catastrophes. “Death of a President” was honored by The International Critics Prize Jury (FIPRESCI) at Toronto for “the audacity with which it distorts reality, to reveal a larger truth.” ※ちなみにこのエントリーは、GoogleVideoから、Typepadに直接エントリーができるのでテストとして書いてみましたが、映画などの場合、Descriptionを明記しておくと、CGMとして、いろんなところで、露出することができそうです。この映画見たくなったので、日本でもディストリビューター、どこか名乗りでてくれないでしょうかねえ。 |
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