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Anytime Monet, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Prophetic wasn't it ? Back then, it was called the Military Industrial Complex usually. Now we more commonly called it The Deep State. What the Deep State wants the Deep State gets and they knew it back in '74, just as well as we do now. In this movie, I think Warren got made (as an infiltrator) pretty early in the game (and by that I mean when the photo was taken at the top of the Space Needle) and then they just set him up to get framed with a few chess moves by people infinitely smarter than him and almost anyone else.
With a stronger middle and end I would have bumped it up from very solid to excellent. Obviously they wanted to do a lot more with the movie, but couldn't for whatever reason (budget, etc.) .
Warren can't help getting shot dead at the end I guess - at least back in those days.
His character was a naive knucklehead.
And to sign up and try to infiltrate a group that is offing politicians is pretty stupid in the name of "journalism".
Oh right, this movie reminds me of a movie called Arlington Road (1999).
I probably already recommended it in an earlier post.
Good enough for at least one viewing.
I think they made about 10 to 15 movies in total with the same premise.
It's like that movie "The Bell" or something like that where at the end the new recruit asks his mentor "what if I need this or that"?
And the mentor tells him that you're one of us now.
Anything you want or need, just ask.
We're in control of everything.
Or something like that... I'm paraphrasing.
But the world has always been set up like this for at least 2,000 years if not 4,000 years or more.
It's just a bit of a shock to the system when you realize it's not a "Democracy".
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