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VICE – Review by Martha P. Nochimson

January 20, 2019 Martha P. Nochimson (Archived Contributor) 0 Comments adam mckay, amy adams, biopics, christian bale, dick cheney, eye on media, vice

Vice is a film about Dick Cheney and his partner in crime Lynne, to be sure, but it’s also about the way we talk about history, how we know what we know, how we fill in the gaps in our partial knowledge with our own fictions, and who has a voice in creating historical narratives.

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VICE – Review by Susan Granger

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019 Susan Granger 0 Comments adam mckay, amy adams, biopics, christian bale, dick cheney, vice

Idiosyncratic writer/director Adam McKay has crafted a devastating portrait of Dick Chaney, opening with TV footage of the then-Vice President’s autocratic assumption of White House power as Manhattan’s Twin Towers burned on 9/11.

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VICE – Review by Diane Carson

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018 Diane Carson 0 Comments adam mckay, amy adams, christian bale, dick cheney, sam rockwell, steve carrell, vice

Vice presents a wild, irreverent ride through Dick Cheney’s life. Writer/director Adam McKay tackles Dick Cheney’s public and private life head on in Vice, a title with provocative insinuations far beyond Cheney’s years 2001 to 2009 as President’s George W. Bush’s Vice President. After introductory, amusing text on screen, the story proper begins in Caspar, Wyoming, in 1963 with a speedy, loud opening scene of Dick stopped for drunk driving.