Sep 25, 2009
Frost/Nixon
Nixon must have been a very lonely, insecure, sad man. There are always jokes and remarks of him being so insecure, needing the approval of the nation, but it’s never been portrayed in such an honest, almost endearing way. My favorite scene is when Frost is watching Nixon get into the helicopter and right before he gets in, Nixon’s face drops, and you can truly see how empty he is and feels. By the end of the movie, I feel more sorry for him than anything. The acting in this movie was phenomenal.
And more than anything, it seemed like he really wanted to get it out there. It was something that was weighing him down. And it’s hard to imagine ever doing something so wrong that it would continue to define you after your death. That it’d be the one thing anyone remembered you for. And that it’d be the thing that you tried so hard to get people to forget. Isn’t that always the way life works out, that no matter how hard you try and prove that you shouldn’t be defined by your mistakes, the more it sticks?
Just by chance G and I were watching PBS and the original interviews were on. I feel that the actors who played Frost and Nixon portrayed so much more emotion and vulnerability in their characters than the actual Frost and Nixon did in the real interviews. I kind of feel as if they were adding a bit more than might have been there for dramatic effect.