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I liked how this movie was just made a few years after it happened. I think this made the movie more accurate. -- Justine R. | I liked how this movie was just made a few years after it happened. I think this made the movie more accurate. -- Justine R. | ||
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| + | I think the movie, having been made so soon after Watergate itself, assumed a certain degree of familiarity with the people and events involved in the affair. We all had at least an introduction to the material in class, but a lot of us would probably still admit to getting a little lost amidst the constant name dropping. In a way, the film plays as a catharsis of sorts for a country still reeling from all of the paranoia about the government that others described in the comments above. I think the film still works as a mystery and as a story for people who don't remember Watergate or who don't have a particular interest in it, but for us today that final "Nixon Resigns" message doesn't have the same "our national nightmare is over" punch it might have had then. Of course, not being alive in 1976, this is entirely supposition on my part. -Mary Ann | ||
== Comments on the readings and the semester of US History in Film == | == Comments on the readings and the semester of US History in Film == | ||
