DEATH OF A PRESIDENT Commentary
October 10th, 2006 by Andre Soares
"The assassination itself, as it turns out, is merely a premise, the prelude to a compelling debate about the state of post-9/11 reasoning, righteousness, and the loss of civil liberties in the dealing with global terrorism. If some unidentified assassin were to shoot the president of the United States, the film invited me to think, what assumptions would I have about his killer? Does the press–or the government–create or at least favor politically advantageous suspects?"
That’s Harry Heuser in Broadcastellan, discussing Gabriel Range’s controversial pseudo-documentary Death of a President, which was recently broadcast in the United Kingdom.
Range’s film revolves around the assassination of U.S. president George W. Bush in 2007. Some have found it inflammatory, others have found it unintelligent, and still others have found it good enough to win the Critics’ FIPRESCI Award at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
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