I watched The Interpreter again tonight. The last time I saw it I fell asleep because I found it boring and irrelevant.
Unfortunately I found it poignant and applicable today.
There is a segment where the FBI(?) is briefing on the genocidal leader, Zuwanie, and his rivals. They mention how Zuwanie was responsible for freeing the country from previous oppression, was then elected President of their country, and proceded to run it into the ground. They made a comment about how that's what always happens: revolutionaries become dictators. Rulers change their politics as soon as they get power. They go from beloved to feared.
Nicole Kidman's character mentions how proud her family and the other families in their neighborhood were when Zuwanie became president. And how he turned around and killed them all.
And while it's still currently a little bit of a dramatic leap to make the connection to our current government...I certainly share the sentiment in that I so wished I could cheer and celebrate over his election, and I did have some silly notion of hope that he would prove me wrong. But instead he's been worse than I imagined.
*sigh*
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