Today I was doing some cleaning and came across something I had written for my very first Web site. When I was on the radio in Cartersville I had gone to Geocities and set up a free Web page for my show. Brainstorming for features, I decided my legions of fans would certainly love to hear my opinions on the latest movies.

This review of the Warren Beatty movie Bulworth seemed as though it had been written by another hand. I tried to recall if I had welcomed in a guest critic at some point, but I don't recall ever doing that (and who would have written for me? Not like I had lots of fans dying for the chance to be my lackey). So it's obvious I must have typed these words myself. I must have believed this at one time!

I'll just post the movie review for now, comment on it later.

Sunday, May 24, 1998

Bulworth: Bullshit

Tonight I saw the movie Bulworth, starring Warren Beatty. As a movie, it was entertaining enough. As a political statement, it was full of errant liberal thinking (I'm beginning to think those words are synonymous). The movie reflects standard liberal Hollywood thinking: rich people exploit the poor economically, the police beat them physically. The movie is essentially a "Pepsi Generation" ad for communism.

Warren Beatty plays Bulworth, a California senator who becomes suicidally depressed and decides to have himself killed. Somewhere he decides to advocate all liberal, communist, MTV-friendly political agendas before he dies.

Bulworth espouses the belief that the reason there's crime in the ghetto is because jobs have been shipped to Mexico. However, the truth is there is still crime in Mexico where the jobs have been shipped! Even though the jobs are supposedly in Mexico, Mexicans are still running over over the border to join us! Why would they run where the opportunity isn't?

Halle Berry plays Beatty's love interest, who says that after World War II there were plenty of jobs in the ghetto, and this inspired the civil rights movement. Crime, says Berry's character, has sprouted in the ghetto because of this lack of jobs. Well, there was crime in the ghetto in the 50's and 60's, too! And those defense jobs that came about because of World War II? We still make all of our own defensive weapons! We even make them for other countries! So those jobs must still be here!

Bulworth's supposed solution to these problems? He says, point blank: SOCIALISM!

It was an hour-and-a-half long, but that pretty much sums up the movie's message and my response to the message.

I RUIN THE ENDING: He dies in the end, which was sort of predictable. He starts the movie suicidally depressed, and in the end he dies. That's all part of the liberal mentality: they believe in defeat an despair, which is why they always identify with losing causes. Just look at any Franz Kafka short story: every character has a miserable existence and then dies. Samuel Beckett? Characters search for "meaning," and then die. It's the liberal mentality.

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