![]() ![]() If you're nine years old – and have never seen Wag the Dog, or JFK, or Blow Out, or All the President' s Men, or The Parallax View, or any of the countless docs and dramas having to do with the Nixon administration – maybe it's all very revelatory. ![]() Globalization stunts the developing world. Politicians and their entourages don't necessarily have their electorate's best interests at heart. They're also (to use just a few analogies culled from the film) a cynical carousel, a cynical war, a cynical form of advertising, a cynical popularity contest and a cynical bus race around the lip of a Bolivian mountain cliffside. An infantile message movie coming 40 (if not 100) years too late, Our Brand Is Crisis hammers home the patently obvious message that politics are a cynical game. ![]()
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