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Imagining an intense, politically-driven, interview-based film is sort of hard to do.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019ve seen the trailer, you’ve heard this: \u201cI\u2019m saying that if the president does it, then that mean it\u2019s not illegal.<\/em>\u201d That brief clip is the moment the whole film builds up to, but at no point is the film less shocking (especially if you\u2019re mostly ignorant about Watergate).\u00a0 From start to finish Frost\/Nixon<\/a><\/em> is not only entertaining and compelling, but also extraordinarily well made.<\/p>\nFrost\/Nixon<\/em><\/strong> is a sort of documentary, mostly narrative, surrounding the interview of Richard Nixon (Frank Langella<\/em>) by Robert Frost (Michael Sheen<\/em>).\u00a0 The films starts with Nixon resigning his position of president of the United States and ends with what 1977 America wanted to hear most from the former president.\u00a0 And, by the time it gets there, you\u2019ll feel like you too are right in the middle of it all.<\/p>\n The norm for politically-driven films seems to be a liberal one.\u00a0 As to whether the film is bias towards the left or right, saying it\u2019s fair would be more appropriate.\u00a0\u00a0 Attention is given to \u201cNixon the man\u201d and dues are paid to where the president was able to truly succeed.\u00a0 But on topics of Vietnam and Watergate, there are no holds barred.\u00a0 This is a well-played portrait of a man.\u00a0 Richard Nixon is portrayed nearly perfectly, to the point where it may as well have been him.\u00a0 Hearing the opinions of those who knew him best would be quite interesting.<\/p>\n But the film is perhaps a deeper plea for truth.\u00a0 As with most films dealing with massive lies, the fib in question is not the only lie being referenced.\u00a0 In fact, saying Ron Howard\u2019s Frost\/Nixon isn\u2019t reminding us all to personally keep our facts straight would be sort of ironic–as would saying that we were never given a warning not to let history repeat itself.<\/p>\n Time travel is no easy task, but apparently Ron Howard has mastered the technique.\u00a0 I found nothing wrong with the film. Not one single thing (actually, after reviewing IMDB\u2026 apparently there are some buildings from the 90\u2019s visible in one scene for a couple of seconds or something).\u00a0 Each performance, each speech, each set piece and even every pair of leather shoes are all straight out of the 70\u2019s.\u00a0 Capturing a moment in time perfectly, and still managing to leave the audience totally mesmerized is quite the accomplishment.\u00a0 I would personally be quick to call this Ron Howard\u2019s most accomplished work as a director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by Keith Chancey.\u00a0 Viewed at the Riviera theatre in Santa Barbara. Imagining an intense, politically-driven, interview-based film is sort of hard to do.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019ve seen the trailer, you’ve heard this: \u201cI\u2019m saying that if the president does it, then that mean it\u2019s not illegal.\u201d That brief clip is the moment the whole film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema-society","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}