Movies exist in any place and --thank goodness-- they are all the time within our reach. They are the soft padding the mind seeks when reality becomes too hard for us to rely upon. Their horizons are limitless, appealing us to escape into infinite dimensions when the narrowness of this world cannot fit our yearnings. Movies can help us not only escape reality but also handle reality, when it becomes difficult, challenging, or overwhelming.
And what part of reality can come to be more overwhelming than politics...
If you want to see how the mythology of films treats the many faces of American politics and their head-to-head struggle with federal justice and the social opinion, watch the films listed here. They are grouped by theme and cover an entire spectrum of issues, fluctuating from stories about political corruption revealed by the press, to biopics about respected--or not--politicians, to political parodies, to fictitious stories about politicians who found redemption, spiritual renewal and, yes, true love. Here it goes:
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A. Movies about the power of the press and the federal justice theory to report political scandals and expose political corruption, causing severe consequences for the politicians involved. Benefits: These films are based on true historical events and they publicly affirm that the press and the federal justice theory as the embodiments of social conscience, whose commitment is in serving the social interest:
Good Night and Good Luck (2005) Broadcast journalist Edward Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
All The President's Men (1976) Reporters Woodward and Bernstein find the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.
Jfk (1991) A New Orleans Da discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the legal story.
Missing (1982) Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman, this is the story of an American father of conservative background who comes to a South American country to hunt for his missing son, a journalist. Puny by little, the father comes to realize that his own beloved government is not telling him the truth.
B. Biopics about politicians who rose to glory and fell from grace once they were exposed by the press for corruption and scandal. Benefits: Audiences partake in history and watch justice being restored. This has a healing, cathartic result for the old generations and educates the young with lessons from history.</p>
Beau James (1957) Biopic of the political vocation of Jimmy Walker, flamboyant and somewhat corrupt Mayor of New York City from 1926-1932.
Primary Colors (1998) A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the Usa. The film is based on real facts surrounding the scandal of former president Bill Clinton's affair with Ms. Monica Lewinski.
C. Comedies satirizing political scandals, parodying presidents' personalities, and development light of grave historical facts in American politics. Benefits: Though light in nature, these movies have a redemptive purpose for the main characters as they expose their human, flawed side, historically private behind their powerful, irreproachable persona. Audiences contact the "human, flawed" side of excellent political heroes. Humor heals social wounds social ridicule of corrupt political leaders is an redemptive technique serving audiences since Aristophanes' plays.
Dick (1999) Two high school girls gad off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They come to be the legal dog walkers for Nixon's dog Checkers, and also his private advisors during the Watergate scandal.
Bulworth (1998) A suicidal, disillusioned liberal politician puts a covenant out on himself and takes the chance to be bluntly honest with his voters.
My Fellow Americans (1996) Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, come to be reluctant allies when they come to be the target of a conspirator in President Haney's administration. The two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperately frantic hunt for the evidence that will create their innocence. As the scramble through the real America, they get an unexpected crash policy in how their policies affected the citizens.
D. Portraits of American presidents who confronted national and personal crises with excellent efficiency. They portray how strong characters who are also social figures react to trying times and create history. Benefits: obvious role models are all the time popular. These movies teach leadership lessons. Emphasize good leaders' quality to weigh personal ambition, commitment to social service, power, and need for privacy.
Thirteen Days (2000) The film is set during the two-week Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962, and it centers on how President John F. Kennedy, Attorney normal Robert Kennedy, and others handled the explosive situation.
Wilson (1944) The political vocation of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled here, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. during his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities foremost to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations
The Contender (2000) Laine Hanson, is a senator who is nominated to come to be Vice President. during the confirmation process, she receives a vicious assault on her personal life and morality. She is torn as to either she should fight back, or stick to her high theory and refuse to criticism on the allegations. Although it isn't easy, she sticks to her guns. In the end she is rewarded for it.
E. Movies about simple citizens-turned politicians and ran America with integrity and moral conscience. The characters are fictitious, but the movies are all-time beloved for their inspirational and hopeful messages. Benefits: These movies serve the mean citizen's fantasy to run this country following his or her personal moral code and "do things right". They have a remedial value for the social when it has felt let down by its leader. They offer hope and encouragement to result one's moral conscience for the good of all. We will all the time love stories like these.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the Us Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.
Dave (1993) Dave Kovic looks so much like President Bill Mitchell that he's asked to stand in for him when the president indulges in illicit trysts. When Bill falls into a coma, his Chief-of-Staff, masterminds a highly illegal plot to keep Dave on as the president, aiming at becoming president himself. But he doesn't count on Dave being so beloved and keen to continue.
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