Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Yet, although wholly lacking in charisma,... Nixon remains a brilliant political operator, seizing the opportunity provided by the backlash against the antiwar movement to take the presidency in 1968. It is only when safely in office, running far ahead in the polls for the 1972 presidential election, that his growing paranoia comes to full flower, triggering the Watergate scandal.Read moreLess
Nixon
Near the end of this biographical drama, the disgraced President gazes at a painting of John Kennedy and says, "When people look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what they are." That's a great line, the key to Oliver Stone's movie, which, like his earlier JFK, is three hours of brilliance, provocation and information overload. Stone sees Nixon as a man suffering from paranoia, haunted by the spectre of two dead Kennedys and by his own dead brothers, yet devoted to his wife, a role beautifully played by Joan Allen. The movie makes great demands on the viewer and on Anthony Hopkins, whose brave performance is more an impression than an ...
Nixon
A boldly conceived film on the corruption of power. It attempts to cast Nixon as the protagonist of a tragedy in a Shakespearean mould ? like Macbeth, he clambers over the dead bodies of others to seize power and to retain it. While the film fails to show
Nixon
Centred on a storm-tossed night in 1973, with President Nixon slipping into embittered reverie and recollection as he...
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