They say that man is born good but society corrupts him. Grandparents say that people are honest until they feel like it. That is the main basis of this film called Los Iduz de Marzo, directed by George Cloney, who also stars in it alongside the talented Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti and His Majesty, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
A great story that premiered in 2011 and that over the years has become a classic of political cinema, falling short compared to current reality, I speak of any reality, including the Colombian and obviously the Quindio.
And what political campaign or work related to that world of power does not have among its occupational hazards dealing with betrayal, ambition, or intrigue as something normalized? I think no one is saved.
And it is that whoever has worked before or currently works in any field related to politics, call it an electoral campaign or a State entity, going from the big boss to the basic contractor who was put to campaign for the candidate of some mayor, and then watch the movie, The Ides of March, You’ll notice that director George Cloney didn’t have to go to great lengths to find that original, realistic touch to the story.
Synopsis:
Stephen Meyers is a young and idealistic political campaign consultant working for Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Mike Morris. Stephen will face the biggest challenge of his professional career as he tries to get Morris elected to the Democratic Party of the United States to face the Republican candidate in the United States presidential election in 2004.
Meyers is the main assistant to the campaign manager, Paul Zara. In order to achieve a crucial victory for candidate Morris in the State of Ohio in the primaries, they must obtain the support of a highly influential and corrupt Senator. Meyers is tempted by Tom Duffythe head of the campaign of the other Democratic candidate, who offers him an important position in the opposing ranks, but he refuses.
Meyers will be involved in the world of politics, full of betrayals, cruel and lying, in which nothing is what it seems; his ideals will try to remain above corruption, without success. A dramatic dilemma between ethics and politics that seem incompatible in the film
You will be able to understand one with that short summary that The avarice breaks the bag or that the big fish sometimes eats the boy, but when the boy bare his teeth everything can change and much more in politics. Then it is understood that the promises of politicians are something more than common lies that never end.
It is taken for granted that their speeches are only useful tools to take the spoils from our hands and that it is better to owe money, if you can a lot, than to owe favors, especially if those consist of keeping secrets that can ruin your arrival at the top. of the world.
And how could a good, young man, with ideals of changing society, become someone Machiavellian in this film and end up becoming what he hated so much about the other characters who were by his side?
Easy answer. Because the reason that guided him on his path was ambition, and the trigger for that metamorphosis was having been trampled on and believing those who did it, that they could get away with it on the muddy road to power.
Secrets have a price to keep and it’s nothing personal, it’s just business, it’s dynamic and changing politics. It is democracy.
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