In ancient times, as the story goes, in four calendar months out of twelve, there was a day exactly in the middle, which divided the month into before and after. It was called idi (which means "to divide"). In modern history, the role of the id can be played by anyone who possesses a secret.
On one March day, and specifically on the day of Id - March 15, 44 BC, the greatest statesman of his time, Emperor Julius Caesar, was killed. Since then, every modern politician is not immune from meeting someone who can commit his political murder.
About the theme of the film
George Clooney's film The Ides of March (2011) tells an entertaining story based in part on a true story - the election campaign in which Howard Dean participated. But, since the creation of the picture coincided with the time of the election race for the presidency of the United States, in which Barack Obama participated and then won, the fate of the film almost became sad, since it seemed to everyone then that it was no longer relevant.
“A free press is even more important than a free government,” says George Clooney.
Time has shown - Clooney was right. His work, which lifts the curtain over PR technologies, thanks to which the citizens of a democratic country choose who will become the head of state for the next four years, is already one of the modern classics. Because it turned out that this story is broader than just the history of some elections there, in some year, in some country, even the United States. This story touches on not only the topic of political elections. Rather, Clooney's film is about a choice that has to be made in life many times: for the sake of a career - one's own or someone else's, for the sake of one's own or someone else's life, for the sake of truth.
Ides: time "before" and time "after"
The Ides of March of the 2000s is the story of the modern Julius Caesar and the Brutus he gave birth to. The story is about a young employee of the presidential election headquarters, who believes in the sincerity and honesty of the one for whom he works - a contender for the presidency of the United States - a tough but worthy politician.
"Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi!" / "And you, Brutus, my son!" - a phrase attributed to Julius Caesar.
Once faced with the hard-hitting fact of the biography of the applicant (George Clooney), a young political strategist (Ryan Gosling) does everything to protect his idol, but accidentally endangers himself. Before him, like the ancient goddess of retribution Nemizis, appears the hunter for the sensational truth - the journalist Ida. It is she who is assigned the role of the ancient March idols: the division of life into "before" and "after". "Do" - purity of thoughts and ambition. "After" is the dirty laundry that unites both characters.
Each of them will have to choose between moral principles and violation of the order of things, some understandable consistency and the desire to achieve the goal at any cost.
"A big advantage is gained by someone who made mistakes early enough to learn from." Winston Churchill
History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood, it develops definitely in a spiral - these are axioms. But there is also a human factor, which, having the will, can one day destroy any of the axioms. George Clooney leaves the question open - will the modern analogue of Brutus repeat the act of its historical predecessor, just answering one simple question: "Stephen, tell us how it all happened?"
