Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) is the idea man for Governor
Mike Morris (George Clooney) and his political campaign to secure the
Democratic Nomination for President of the United States. Paul Zara (Philip
Seymour Hoffman) is the man with the plan and Morris’ right hand man and
Stephen’s boss. Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti) is the manager for the other
candidate Pullman’s campaign.
Stephen is great as his job and Tom wants him for the
competition. Unfortunately, changing sides is quite the scandal and Stephen
learns just taking the meeting with Tom might be the end of his career. What
more could go wrong?
Enter Intern Molly Stearns (Evan Rachel Wood). Yes, I said
intern, and yes, it’s exactly what you’re thinking. What do you do when you’re
idealistic candidate falls from grace? What happens when your ideas of what
politics is supposed to be about get destroyed by “dirty politics?”
This movie represents what I believe to be a true
interpretation of politics. You enter it full of hope and ideas on how to
change the world for the better, and the powers that be taint you, steal your
soul, and change you, not the world.
Political thrillers tend to bore me, but this one didn’t. I
believe this was a great display of Ryan Gosling talents, and he did just about
a much driving as he did in “Drive” but the acting was so much better. There’s
some Republican bashing, as was expected, and there’s a few real life bumper
sticker speeches that you’ll probably hear echoed in the 2012 campaign, but you
can get past it.
It was a thriller and there are surprising plot twist. It
worth a look if political movies are your thing, or if you just want to look at
Gosling and/or Clooney.
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