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"The Assassination Of Richard Nixon" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 05/21/12
When an obsessive yet vulnerable man loses his family, job and later dreams while those he sees as cheats and liars always seem to succeed, he decides to kill the man he sees as the figurehead of the corruption of the American system; Richard Nixon. Penn is very good as a man who is desperately clinging to his sense of morals, becoming increasingly indignant as he sees his fellow "oppressed" crushed by the government on his television screen. There are actually a lot of parallels between those times and the current days of political spin and Sam Bicke can almost be seen as a cypher for the disenfranchised muslims of the world who see acts of terror as their only voice. Clever and thought provoking, and it offers a more personal picture of an individual trapped within a seemingly corrupt system than Syriana.
