Serious reflection

This is a movie with a strong documentary style. The time of the story is set on October 17, 2007. That day, US President Bush came to Chicago to participate in a civil society and give a speech. When he walked out of the hotel after his speech, he was shot and killed by a gunman hiding in the opposite building. Subsequently, the FBI began a search for the suspect: the extreme environmentalists who repeatedly protested when Bush attended the event, the U.S. soldiers who had just retired from Iraq, and the Arab-Americans who appeared suspiciously at the crime scene at the time of the incident were all arrested. Arrest and interrogate without any explanation. The main content of the film is the interviews with these suspects and their families, as well as the FBI agents handling the case, the bodyguard of President Bush's secretary and other staff around them. Their performance is so simple and natural that it makes people feel that it is a real interview, not a fiction arranged by the director. I saw some film critics saying that this film is the best spoof film of the year, and I was very surprised. In my opinion, this film is definitely a very serious political reflection. I can't see any superficial mockery of President Bush or some other political figure in this movie. Rather, it is a deep reflection on the Bush administration’s foreign policy, the post-911 incident in the US judicial system, ethnic relations, and other socio-political issues.
Perhaps many Chinese people are accustomed to holding a cynical attitude towards social reality. They adopt a critical attitude, which can fully demonstrate their wisdom and maintain a safe bottom line, but they are never willing to delve into it. The truth of the matter. In other words, without jeopardizing their own interests, they cursed and mocked the authoritarian and stupid "big brother" as much as they wanted, and pointed at him with foul sores, but they were unwilling to go. Take a knife to dig out the sore, because they either don’t have the guts to provoke the "big brother", or they know that there is actually their own muscle and blood underneath the sore of the big brother. They make it to death... In such a country, you can see singing and dancing, you can see crazy entertainment, you can see all kinds of nonsense spoofs, but it is difficult for you to see really serious reflections, even if you see it, you It is also difficult not to be influenced by others and suspect that what you see is the latest form of spoof.
In the world, we are afraid of being serious. Westerners are stronger than us and are stronger in this word. The story sets the president’s assassination to such an extreme state. The purpose is not to criticize and satirize Bush himself, but to help people imagine how the underlying factors hidden in American social and political life will burst out: set up for anti-terrorism. How did the Patriot Act become a dangerous weapon that violates the rights of citizens at this time? How will the United States’ international counter-terrorism policy further evolve into violence against other weak countries? How even the issue of counter-terrorism itself blinds people.
Americans have a sentence written on their banknotes: "We believe in God." The most common sentence the President of the United States said in his speeches was "God Bless America." The president of the United States can be killed, but it is difficult for a nation with strong beliefs to break down.

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