Election: Truth in melodrama

This film has a motif of messyness. Of how real life ALWAYS has little shitty bits. Nothing is perfect, even in (or possibly especially in) people and situations that are so clean cut (although that's a little too obvious to be necessarily true). Or maybe how we expect certain ruitines and paths, and they get messy and weird. How the big things are affected by the TINY things (like when Matthews Broderick flicks his wrist in a tiny way and the two ballots drop in the trash, and what that becomes). The relationship between the finest and greatest points in history. And, finally, how inevitable trouble is. History wil repeat itself. The universe will present a trouble until you can learn to deal with it. And as soon as you've won, there's another trouble waiting in the wings.

But, considering all this messyness, I was surpised at how dark the film didn't get. ...The impressive attitude of Broderick's character kept him on top of where he needed to be. Certianly there was a period in the middle where he lost his cool, and made some mistakes... but, as Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick prepared us from the outset, fate moves people and events along nicely, and Broderick got back on top.

So perhaps the film is more an expose or something. We visited alot of examples of very faceted people dealing with somewhat broad issues. Broad because we can all relate, but also because of how huge and over-arcing they are: How clear they are from afar, and how murky they are once you're dealing with them up close. Broderick's Mr. M told us he didn't remember how all the trouble started. That's how it is.

I kept noticing how fair the presentation of the story was. I could understand very well where everyone was coming from. Sure, there was one main protagonist, but each character spun events along toward what they thought were their goals. And with the recollections of history, it's incredibly important to take each side as a key player. As a hero, in their own mind.

The whole thing remind me of Google Earth.