I caught this movie, the other night on one of the premium cable channels, I think IFC or Sundance, I had read about the movie previously over the years, but never saw it. WoW! What a movie. There are def not anyone in this country that could make such an intelligent insightful movie about politics, today. The movie is very astute in terms of its analysis of the political structure in this country, and it was definitely too much for the average viewer upon its release in 1983. It is still too much today. But its message is still relevant, of how nothing is at seems, we are all pawns, how are whole government is just a front or cover which masks the true power structure in tnis country. We individually have no power, we are again pawns that are moved to one postion from the other, completely unaware of what is really going on. We are pawns that are played against each other, white against black, brown against black, straight against gay, men against women, etc..in the background they watch and laugh at us, we are such simpletons..eg. we still believe(that Universal Suffrage) that our elections in this country mean something...etc I think that is a very hard message for people to accept, the tragic thing is that with the recent collapse of our economy, people will actually come to realize this finally...
Review of The Osterman Weekend
