Ides Of March Movie Review
Mike Morris, Governor of Pennsylvania in "The Ides of March" is an image of liberal hearts desire, and not just because he is played by George Clooney. Morris, who keeps a cool head, and excite the passions of the primary Democratic voters, is a committed environmentalist and a sincere secular which evades questions about his faith by confessing that his religion is the US Constitution. It is against war and in favor of employment, even if the economy figures far less in his campaign that it would be fictitious in the real just around the corner.
Despite the political affiliation of Morris and positions - that are tailored to sounds both vague and provocative - "The Ides of March" is not a fairy tale ideology. It is quite easy, while Morris see in action, to be replaced by another set of talking points and imagine the governor as a Republican candidate dream, sweetness, low taxes and defend traditional values in the same whisper seductively. (Who is the right of George Clooney? Is Tom Selleck still available?)
But it's hard to really connect with this fairy-tale world, claims to represent. What will happen in 2012, within one of the parties, or competition between them, it seems fair to say that more or less is at stake. This did not happen, "Ides of March", which is less an allegory of the American political process as busy, hazy, moderately amusing antidote to it.
Morris, locked in a battle for the nomination to a colorless Pullman (and barely visible) Senator (Michael Mantell), is somewhat of a figure, or perhaps a symbol. It represents an ideal of political charisma of this film, directed by Mr. Clooney and based on the play "Farragut North" by Beau Willimon, is to tarnish. Yet it is doubtful that, after more than a decade of scandals, bitterness and a bar-vaulted media reported that this fantasy noble exist elsewhere in the minds of writers and actors who look back tenderly on the wonderful make-believe governments of Henry Fonda and Martin Sheen.
"You stay in this business long enough, you get jaded and cynical," said a staff member country to another. "The Ides of March" defines the first to refute this bit of conventional wisdom, to confirm . It is largely the story of a loss of innocence political career. No Morris, but Stephen Meyers, a champion of young people on the campaign staff of the governor, who played with intensity the sad eyes of Ryan Gosling. His immense talent is mentioned rather than shown, but we can not accept that it is both a brilliant tactical brain and more importantly, a true believer, the work of Morris, because he believes Morris is the last hope for America.
