Vice
- sombre
- twisty
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.
Our read · Vice (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded comedy · drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Vice
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a savage, stylistic political biopic about power with zero bipartisan comfort.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if fragmented satire and Cheney-era politics will just irritate you tonight.
The reading.
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