A new fictional film shot in the style of a documentary is stirring up controversy for Britain’s Channel 4.
“Death of a President” is being called a “shockingly real” TV drama that will trace the aftermath of a fictionalized assassination of U.S. President George Bush, reports Reuters.
Set to debut this September at the Toronto International Film Festival, the movie follows the investigation into the sniper shooting.
The film places the assassination in October 2007 at a Chicago anti-war rally, and uses both archival footage and computer-generated imaging to create the incident.
“It’s a pointed political examination of what the war on terror is doing to the American body politic,” said Peter Dale, boss of Channel 4’s More4.
This autumn, the channel will also explore a futuristic scenario involving British Prime Minster Tony Blair. “The Trial of Tony Blair” will be a satirical program taking a look at his future resignation.
You?ll be more likely to hear Neil Young?s new single, ?Let?s Impeach the President,? on the radio in Canada than in the United States.
?Let?s Impeach the President? isn’t the only song on Young?s new album, ?Living With War,? that has to do with the U.S. President George W. Bush?s actions while in office. The song hasn?t gone without its controversy either. Americans are up in arms that a Canadian has the atrocity to tell them what they should be doing with their government.
Contrary to the song titles, like ?Shock and Awe,? ?Living With War,? and ?Looking for a Leader,? the album is not an anti-American, hate-spewing vent. Instead it is a wonderfully written, beautiful statement from one man to the country he wasn?t born in but has called home for 30 years.
Young?s lyrics are mesmerizing and memorable. He puts words together very poetically. Even if you are pro-Bush you cannot help but hear and understand what he is trying to say. The songs are mostly upbeat in tempo, stuff you can stomp along to, while Young?s voice careens over his views on the subjects at hand.
One of the highlights of the album is ?Let?s Impeach the President? because the middle of the song has Young and his back up singers chanting, “Flip . . . flop” with Bush?s most contradictory statements between them.
?Living With War? is an album everyone ? no matter what their position on the political spectrum is ? should listen to.
