Channel 5 has premonition of US presidential election?
Written by ED on April 13, 2008 – 1:00 am - Posted in Current Affairs, Trivial & Whining |Local TV stations can be quite boring at times, or maybe I should say most of the times. Today’s “Stay Home Saturday Movie” was great though. I am not sure about the significance of the movie being shown at this point, especially when the battle between Hillary and Obama is getting really spicy for the upcoming presidential election.
The movie - Head of State - depicts the story of how an insignificant black man, Mays Gilliam, was plucked off the street to be thrown into the limelight as a candidate for the presidential election. That was not before his girl dumped him, and losing his job. In opposition, Mays was challenged by Lewis (a white, war veteran & vice president for eight years) who has grown increasingly unhappy with the amount of support Mays have gained from Americans. To cut the story short, the star always win. So Mays won the election, short and sweet.
But midway through the movie, I suddenly realized the similarities between this movie and the US presidential election now. Let’s just take a look at the similarities and the differences.
1. White vs Black, which is the case for the real US presidential election now. The only difference is, Hillary is a female while the opponent is Lewis, a male, in the movie.
2. In the movie, Mays won the hearts of the citizens due to his understanding and experiences as an average citizen. While we can’t say both Hillary & Obama had experienced a truly humble life growing up, Obama does seemed to attract the support of the minorities and average Americans more than Hillary.
3. The potential Vice Presidents are relatively quiet in the movie, and it is the same for Hillary & Obama. Both Vice Presidents hopefuls have remained out of the limelight, with the main battle raging between the initial two.
Is Channel 5 having some sort of premonition about the real life presidential election in US? It can’t be a propoganda I am sure, because this movie was first released in 2004. Coincidence I guess but who knows the below is what you will see at the end of the US election… hahahahahahahaha!!!
