Reagan
Reagan
First of all, I should answer the most difficult question which everyone asks in the final review: I hate Ronald Reagan presidency. It’s a bias I must admit to. That said, I do not see the need to understand why people appreciate the film, given that the plot is interesting, the screen version has no moral condemning the main character and even his behavior is excusable.
That, as they say, is the problem with Reagan – the latest appasson from MJM Entertainment. This picture has no intention of assessing what this man’s impact was but is shown to favourably portray the Republican hero as a marketing tool.
Such authority is long before my generation but even as I was growing up, Reagan was more of an almost non existent image of a man’s next to the best nation on earth. A documentary about him must provoke an equally analytical viewpoint on the portrayal of Reagan in modern America and its popular opinion of him – be it positive or negative.
This movie, Sean McNamara’s I Am Patrick, appears to be one that was rather less dependent on on-the-ground field studies of historians, but more on the tip of a headsucking PragerU fable. Curiously , the narrative revolves around a Soviet KGB officer Viktor Petrovich Jon Voight with a thick Russian accent yet does not miss an opportunity to praise Reagan wanting to narrate the great communicators life to a bewildered younger Russian Politician who i.
The Russian Federation represents some kind of a thrust between die-hard Soviet Union policies and the dynamics of modern society. More Germanization than Sovietization, Hattiadionisation? Jon Voight is almost convincing as a comically bad Russian. He whole across the pond fawning at Mt Anderson with other Republican Party leaders that rest are conquered ideologies and fools.
According to him, if worshipping someone like Reagan were permitted, then Reagan is the one worthy of worship. Born of a domineering mother who trained him to defend himself from rascals as a child, a lifeguard who managed to save around seventy lives, the man who, unlike his contemporaries founded a war against communism in one of the most influential domains America needed him most as its president.
How heart- warming will this continue with the turn of trump American Nations one will not be surprised to find more of one and minus the other etc. Such heroic fables are most systemically attractive. I am so heroic fable that such argument works when there is no stressing that shameland has soot out all the greasy emotion detemined which.
Through all of the dissatisfaction I have with his rule, I still think that Reagan deserves greater help. While watching this film one never gets the fascinating details regarding his personality during these epochs which is a shame and discredits American history. Events such as when his child dies right after birth or statements like the Red Scare are rudely inserted in the movie.
It is difficult to understand such reasons as every dramatic piece necessary for it and supporting action is only a lot of whams. Learning from past experiences such mjm entertainment reviews raises or overshoots Christian values and morals in its movies as if on a crusade. This time, their goals are not of beliefs, but an issue of submission and licking the feet of a right-wing icon.
For this reason, one-sidedness divorce at best contributes to a rather dull film. At its worst, Reagan is nothing but an unreasonable display of fabrications. Controversial aspects of his presidency like his extension of the Iran Hostage Crisis or the Iran-Contra Affair tend to be glazed over or minimised in return for portraying him as the hero who asked Mikhail Gorbachev: “What is that wall doing there? Get rid of it!” (Some of you may have heard of Gorbachev; he is the bad commie.)
In the picture’s hearts, as of now, none of these developments actually fit in a description that conveys what has been in the hearts of ordinary American people; the image of a wie-off common sense American folk hero, who is so nice that he insists on waiting while the little boy is consoled, the boy whose goldfish has just died.
The most troubling aspect of Reagan is the scene that begins and also provides a mid point in the storyline of the film, that is the scene when an insane person aims a gun at the president seeking to kill him. Story wise, this is an odd scene for the movie to revolve around.
Moreover it is quite unnecessary to build up any suspense since we already know that he survives and this is far from any significant moment in his life. It is simply put there to emphasize what he himself has been told by his mom (I do think its Forest Gump) that this is, even a chance occurrence, is the way God arranged for it to be.
The movie was produced years back, so all this looks accidental, but the chronology of its release raises too many eyebrows. Indeed there is no doubt that Ronald Reagan evokes the image of current Republican President: professional actor turned politician with a political slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ who has, oh blessed be, attempted assassination.
Mere applicability of Donald Trump’s words echoing “Is your life better off than it was four years ago?” which has been used by Ronald Reagan during his campaign to eliminate the distance strengthens the resemblance, and proves that the still relevant Reagan is a person who should be researched in designs far deeper than what was presented in this motion picture.
I’m not one to deny quality when I see it, so allow me to commend Dennis Quaid when I say that he deserved some accolades for his portrayal of the iconic president. Reagan had this affability and working-class image which Quaid plays with such finesse that one gets the impression that ‘Dutch’ is back resurrected to shoot one of his terrible movies.
That’s because he happily admitted he was devoted to the idea that Reagan was the best president in his life and that this is a part he had been waiting to play. Such talents of his should be gracing a better film than this. Sure, there’s been an increasing demand for a Ronald Reagan picture for ages, but this ain’t it, chief.
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- Genre: Biography, Drama, History
- Country: United States
- Director: Sean McNamara
- Cast: Dennis Quaid, Penelope Ann Miller, Mena Suvari
