George Clooney’s 5th directed film that he is also credited as a co-writer, a 2011 film that focuses on two democratic parties competing each other for the presidency, this political thriller film was not what I excepted from the trailers and was pleasantly surprised by the direction the film takes.
Starring Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers the Junior Campaign Manager of President Mike Morris (played by Clooney) takes the lead of the movie, it’s really wonderful that Clooney put himself on such a simple minded president candidate character and as a director allows Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti to truly shine in this movie, very pleased with that choice Clooney put out.
Hoffman plays Paul Zara the campaign manager of Mike Morris and the tutor and mentor of Stephen Meyers, with their main competitor being Giamatti’s Tom Duffy, the campaign manager of the rival Democratic Party. These 3 actors take the lead as the political drama gets nastier and nastier. It’s wonderful how the movie is named “Ides of March” which comes from Julius Caesar’s assignation as his closest allies and the Roman senate betrayed the man, it has a very thematic value to this movie.
I don’t wish to say a lot more, because it’s a rather simple story, I thought this was going to be campaign vs. campaign movie, but it really turns into a inner battle between the Mike Morris campaign group itself, as secrets are revealed, trusts are broken and the stakes get higher and higher, this movie gets into incredibly nasty territory and I absolutely loved how serious this movie was. It’s incredibly clever and well casted, but there is one downside to this movie.
I felt Clooney dragged this movie way too much, sure you can see that “actor” vibe from him as he utterly wants Gosling to shine, but at the end of the day you just really end up dragging scenes that just shouldn’t last that long.
Overall, it’s a serious movie and fits perfectly for our generation on what we people want, heck you even get a bit 99% vs. 1% from Mike Morris, but not a huge emphasis on the Wall Street, but things like Mike Morris’ campaign posters are very Obama inspired and that I liked. I’ll recommend this to everyone, but remember it can be a bit dragged out, but it’s still a good clever movie.
PS. There is a funeral scene of a woman and the man giving the speech says “everything she touched, she made better” so me and my friend obviously crack up on that, what on earth was Clooney thinking? He must have known the rather nasty humor of that quote, especially when you take in context what kind of an character dies during this movie hehehe.
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