{"id":11506,"date":"2009-02-11T23:33:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T21:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11506"},"modified":"2009-08-04T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T08:45:42","slug":"frost-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/11\/frost-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Frost \/ Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Frost<\/a><\/p>\n

A few days ago I went to see “Frost \/ Nixon<\/a>“.\u00a0\u00a0 A movie with the one of the USA presidents in the title?\u00a0 Just a few days since the whole world has watched the most hyped up inauguration of the USA president in history?\u00a0 And just a few days since I’ve watched another political movie about yet another predisent of the USA – “W.<\/a>“?\u00a0 Yes, of course.\u00a0 Plus there was a surprisingly high rating over at IMDB.<\/p>\n

And it happens to be a really good movie.\u00a0 I’m a total loser when it comes to history, so I can’t really say how accurate the film is, but from the movies point of view it was excellent.\u00a0 I really liked the simplicity of the overall setup – it felt like everything happened in the single room, even though it is not true.\u00a0 It also felt like there were only two people in the film, even though that wasn’t true either.\u00a0 It felt like there was nothing else, even though that again wasn’t true.\u00a0 It’s just that type of a movie which has a lot of tiny details which are unnoticable on their own, but which build up the film to be what it is.<\/p>\n

Another thing which I thought was done really well, was the drama.\u00a0 A big man with the weight of his mistakes and, seemingly, the whole country pointing fingers at him – yet resistent to accept his guilt, finding ways to see everything from other perspective, however feeling the burden deep inside.\u00a0 And then another man, much smaller one, but with his head high due to all the publicity and success around him.\u00a0 And like they say in the film, there is this moment in the ring where a challenger receives the first punch from the title holder and suddenly, in split second, understands the seriousness of the situation.\u00a0 This was built up and shown very well.<\/p>\n

As noted above – tonnes of work went into making of this film and the result is great.\u00a0 Because of all the acting, camera work, light, make-up, sound work, etc, etc, etc this film is one of those fresh breezes even though it has an “oldish” touch to it.<\/p>\n

5 stars<\/strong>.\u00a0 Recommended, even if you are not into politics.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

A few days ago I went to see “Frost \/ Nixon“.\u00a0\u00a0 A movie with the one of the USA presidents in the title?\u00a0 Just a few days since the whole world has watched the most hyped up inauguration of the USA president in history?\u00a0 And just a few days since I’ve watched another political movie … Continue reading Frost \/ Nixon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1708,1,24],"tags":[1682,1684,1681,2160,2159,1683],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-frank-langella","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-michael-sheen","tag-peter-morgan","tag-ron-howard","tag-sam-rockwell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7655,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/09\/arlington-road\/","url_meta":{"origin":11506,"position":0},"title":"Arlington Road","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 9, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"As a premier of Hazard's new TV-set (34\" Tompson or something) we've watched \"Arlington Road\" today on DVD. 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