May 6, 2007

The war game vs. death of a president

Although the bbc funded this film to be made they never aired it. It was too racey, too controversial, and far too real for the british people to take/accept and the british governement to admit. A lot of any country's well being depend on the morale of the people, and the truth of the matter is that most governments could not take care of its people when all hell breaks loose. The world is constantly in a teeter totter and at any given moment everything could go wrong and the whole world could just fall off. The people will not be saved by their governments, and eventually the governements will turn against them out of fear. This is sad truth that eole find hard to deal with, and that's what the bbc did not want their people to see back in the sixties. This is simialr to how the american government tried very hard to make sure that the film death of a president was not released widely, or at all if they could help it, The bbc showed it only public tv for free, because it wasn't their country. The american government does not want a film that shows how easy the president could be killed, how the vice president would try to blame syria and then start a war, how the government would use bush's assasination as a reason to impose more on the american citizens rights, and how an innocent man would be locked up for the killing of the president and no one would care, to a major audience. It freaks people out and it admits that the american government has weaknesses. The same thing applied in the sixties for watkins film.

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