White House Down

Rating: 40%


(http://madisonmovie.org)

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Year:

2013

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Predominant Genre:

Action

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Outstanding Performances:

Premiss:

On a White House tour, a plainclothed policeman springs into action to protect the president from heavily-armed paramilitaries.

Themes:

Courage | Emotional repression | Family | Grieving | Identity | Loneliness | Loyalty | Narcissism | Personal change | Political Correctness | Self-belief | Self-expression | Solipsism | Totalitarianism | White culture

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Review Format:

DVD

Big Guns; Little Lives

Summary: Die Hard in the White House.

If it were not for the humor, this movie would be completely unbearable.

With Whites being the most politically-cynical and disengaged, it is hard to imagine even them of rooting for this movie - even though it presents the White fantasy of the Personal being Political. Such a childish fantasy of returning to the womb explains the essential childishness of this cinematic enterprise

Reverence for political leaders and the idea of patriotism (not the practice of it) here becomes more important than love of family; making you realize why Whites are so fanatical in times of war: It is the only time they feel culturally-bonded to each because of the false bonhomie of having a common enemy. (The heat of Hate often feels just as good as Love.)

Despite oodles of action, there is not a gram of characterization and the political context (the Military-Industrial Complex staging a coup d’état to protect its gun-running profits) is as flimsy as could be.

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