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Silver City
THE American new west‚ is the setting for director John
Sayles’s political satire which centres on a scenario that
is far too familiar to anyone who watches American politics.
Gubernatorial candidate Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper of Adaptation
and Seabiscuit) ends up in a political spiral when a dead body turns
up during a recording of an environmental political advertisement.
We meet all faces of American political life here. Media specialists,
lobbyists, conglomerates and corporate people, environmental rapists
and the ever-present illegal migrants. They all come to form less
of a linear construct than a morass of favours and debts, influence
and back-handers, payoffs and duties to be confronted and explained.
With an inability to communicate clearly or to persuade others,
Pilager becomes useful to the local powers merely because he is
an American version of Tim Nice-But-Dim – and as such a spoof
on George W Bush.
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