Silver City
John Sayles’ latest film follows Dickie Pilager the frighteningly familliar, “user-friendly” candidate during his Colorado campaign to win office. When Pilager reels in a corpse while filming a political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires a former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O’Brien to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family’s enemies.
Silver City is part satire and part sun drenched noir detective story (if such a thing exists) and, in the tradition such films, Danny’s investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.
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Wednesday 13 Oct 2004 | Paul | Comedy
