Review: “W” Isn’t So Bad After All
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By Clarence Yu
Contributor
SOMETIME ago when I heard that Oliver Stone was making a biopic of President George W. Bush, something just didn’t feel right inside my stomach. After all, what else can you expect from the director extraordinaire who brought us Nixon, JFK and Platoon, among other films? Then maybe I thought he had a conspiracy theory thing going on, which would shed light on what really happened these past eight years.
Then I read initial reviews about the film–it was indeed a true-to-life biopic, so how could one get serious with it? Turns out, there are plenty of reasons.
History will probably judge George W. Bush as one of the worst presidents ever, and, at best, one of the most controversial. Stone however, doesn’t want us to have any more of that. We know it. We’ve been seeing the news, reading the papers, and watching all the comedians. Instead, he gives us George W., the frat and party boy, the alcoholic turned born-again Christian, the man who for the most part of his life stood in his father’s shadow.
