podpolia

I’ve been meaning to post something about the new movie that has recently been making headlines — the one that’s a retrospective of the assassination of President Bush. I wasn’t really outraged by it, personally: it seems like a great premise for a movie. I was less impressed with the geopolitics that it invented after the ‘assassination.’ They weren’t overly realistic, in my mind, and the portrayals of various administration figures after the assassination seems rather cartoonish and two-dimensional (at least according to the account that I read of it here). There are so many inventive possibilities for realistic ends to the world that they needn’t have used such a distorted one. Rather a pity, in my opinion. I’d have enjoyed a good political horror drama like this had the potential to be.
Anyhow, I was reminded about the whole issue while reading a recent Powerline poast on the topic, which is an interesting interpretation of the movie’s premise as liberal political fantasy.