Nixon (1995) HQ Do you ever think of death, Dick
Oliver Stone s talents as a director may be erratic but they shine at full strength in the richness of this scene depicting an uneasy agreement between President Richard Nixon and CIA director Richard Helms. Stone s trademark of combining aesthetic precision with playful creativity gives this scene a spinning prismlike effect, flashing light into a myriad of shadowy and suggestive areas. However the historical inaccuracy of Oliver Stone s works is often held up. My view is that watching a film is like experiencing another person s dream. A film cannot really recreate people or events. It is inherently too subjective. Stone s dreams make me especially curious to know more about historical figures and events and in that sense I appreciate them. I do not watch them expecting to see what really happened. Hopkins is a puppet, Stone a puppeteer creating questions and intrigue. Like them we have to find our own truth about Nixon and
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