Gere does a good job at humanizing a politician, at least somewhat.
This movie is worth seeing if you can avoid falling asleep because it
does move slow.
I know a few politicians... I think Gere did well, especially at the final scene ;)
shareI thought the movie was pretty hard to watch, because of the subject
matter and I did not pick up on the one brother's mental illness, but
also the thread of the movie and the way it was done was disorienting
in a sense. The feeling I got as the kid murderer was going free, and
whatever else he was going to do in his life was upsetting. I was really
hoping they were going to make it to the police. Another interesting
thing was the motherhood instinct to protect even a psychopathic
murdering child ... ugh. I wonder how real that is and what something
like that would do a real family.
Yeah... Certainly the moral dilema is the centre of the movie... But the context is also interesting... The politics, the mental illness, etc...
I think the instinct to protect and to cover up misdeeds is very strong, but I think in the real world it would fight against the very real fear that he'd do it again...
Yeah, that ending kind of disgusted me, but in reality I guess that is probably what would really happen with privileged class. Just the glee that the psychopathic son showed as he was burning that old homeless woman ... it was really disgusting.
shareThat kind of glee results from his psychosis not his entitlement issues. Geres son Richard was equally entitled and was he was disturbed by Michaels behavior even though he abetted. Beau was raised alongside Richard and he’s the one who exposed the crime.
I think most juries would find Beau to be innocent, Richard to be guilty of aiding and abetting in the worst way and Michael to be the ringleading instigator, if the scene came out accurately at trial. Oh and throw the book at Michaels mother too for cover up.