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mickeymcgowan
Reviews
Bush's Brain (2004)
George Bush is a puppet wholly manipulated by Karl Rove
This documentary suggests that Karl Rove is literally Bush's brain, as if George is a puppet, with strings pulled by Karl Rove. I think that is too simplistic. The second point is that Rove, a nerd, admires George so much, that he used his high intellect and dirty tricks to put George in the Govenor's mansion, and then in the white house, thus ensuring Karl a long term job, and a physical and psychological closeness to the good looking guy, George, that Karl admired but could never be.
More damaging is the documentary blames Karl for creating a war, so George can stay in office for a second term. In other words, Karl used the Iraq war as a marketing tool for his client Mr. Bush.
This is a truly nefarious allegation - we'll go to war to stay in office for a second term, and to position George as the war president we cannot do without because of the terrorists.
I think this film gives too much power to Mr. Rove, after all he reports to someone, like a boss, so who is culpable.
Cleary the makers of this film fear the power and pranks of Mr. Rove, who may be a very dirty fighter, and may have used dirty tricks, but in their fear they have made the guy responsible for more than he probably is accountable for.
somewhat boring due to the talking heads format, but i enjoyed learning about Mr. Rowe and the republican election tricks.
Otets i syn (2003)
A homoerotic forbidden love story between a father and son
The film is slow and maddening with a dream like feeling, perhaps as a metaphor for the unfulfilled erotic but forbidden love between a father and his son. I think the viewer feels the erotic attraction, and lack of sexual fulfillment, caused by the physical and psychological attachment and detachment of the the boy and his father. This is a taboo subject, the young man's sexual fantasy, towards dad, and the father's homoerotic attraction to his son. I applaud the presentation of this subject, after all what male has not had an admiration for a successful, physically beautiful, and loving father, or coach, or teacher. This film explores this admiration at a deeper and physical level which is portrayed as dreamlike, perhaps because these fantasies are in fact only never realized desires, which exist only in unconscious dreams.
Although the film attempts to bring us this subject for both exposure and discussion, the film is torture because the subject is taboo and we'd rather not talk about it, and because there is only a lot of mental masturbation with no orgasm. And that is torture for all souls.