Bulworth

I'm not going to go too far into how Bulworth is clearly an Artist story.  (Which it is). After all, haven't yet described here how they end up as stories of the Doomed and the Damned, victims and perpetrators. 

And would at some point like to talk a bit about how Warren Beatty (Silent, 1937) was one of the drivers behind New Hollywood, particularly with his involvement in Bonnie & Clyde. 

All I'm going to go into here, though, is how I was watching this 1998 film about a senator who sets up a mafia hit on himself and thinking

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 "It would make perfect sense for the GenX Halle Berry character to be the real assassin - Nomads are usually the amoral ("bad") ones after all."

And moments later, that very character gives Senator Bulworth a perfectly cogent analysis of how African-Americans really need jobs, and how World War II yielded a lot of jobs that fed directly into the Civil Rights movement,  hitting instead on pragmatic and pecuniary touchstones for Nomads in general and GenX in particular.

And THEN, moments after that, we find out that, while she isn't exactly the assassin, she is working directly with him, looking for a ten grand payday.

Go figure.