Main Stream Issues Hit The Movies

Last night my friend Peter and I saw the movie Swing Vote at the Post Mall, this movie became our choice because we were looking for something different, something free from the Hollywood special effects and mayhem of tyranny vs. insanity. Looking at the reviews for the movie was a bit enticing as it was rated very highly by Hollywood.com, and as such I thought it would be a perfect match for our entertainment ambitions that evening.

Peter and I both saw and loved the film as it was a complete parody on mainstream reality, the growing surge in new Independent registered voters, confusion and the obsessive competitive nature of politics that trivializes the political process and gives apathy a reason to exist.

Kevin Costner, the main character, gave a stellar performance as a recently laid off worker in an egg plant. He is a single father raising his young daughter who is more serious about life than he is. Costner, who is "Bud" in the movie has a penchant for drinking that ultimatly causes him to lose his job. His co-workers, on the other hand, express their growing concern over what they describe as "insorcing" or the replacement of American workers with cheaper undocumented migrant workers.

The movie continues with his young daughter, pressing him to get serious about his "swing vote" his single irregular computer cast ballot that will now determine the next President of the United States a vote he personally did not cast but is afraid to say so out of fear that another felony on (Cosner "Bud") her father's record will land him in jail and her in a foster home.

The finale of the movie is "Bud" calling for a last debate where he reads questions from letters he recieves in the mail from countless American's. The first letter is a divisive question from a veteran asking the presidential candidates. "If America is the greatest nation on earth why is it that so few of us can afford to live here?"