Thursday, April 15, 2010

Patterson W post

Two scenes that I thought were an honest evaluation of W’s presidency were the scene when his parents are trying to convince him against running for governor of Texas, and the scene about interrogation techniques. In the first one, W’s parents are discouraging him from running for governor because Jeb, his brother, is already running in Florida. This really demonstrates how much Jeb was favored, and how W probably craved the attention and acceptance from his father. This same issue later led to W’s desire to outdo his father, a possible reason he wanted to enter into war. It is important in the film overall because it shows the relationship W had with his parents, and particularly his father. This relationship affected his life very much, and it probably fueled a lot of his major decisions. The second scene is the one in which Cheney and W are having lunch together and Cheney proposes new interrogation ideas for Guantanamo Bay. W looks a little worried at first, but Cheney declares there is nothing lethal, just water torture. W is relieved to see it is only three pages long, and says “Good, because the United States doesn’t torture” or something to that extent. I felt like this truly demonstrated the ignorance of high government positions, especially President George W. Bush. When torture was brought up, he was more concerned about the length of the report than he was about the moral issue. It is important in the film because it shows how uninformed he is. To say the US doesn’t torture is as ridiculous as Meryl Streep’s character claiming so in Rendition. It’s completely false and frankly, sad, since he is our leader.

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  1. Your posts are always excellent and directly to the point. Thanks,

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