History's sky is clouded with strange men.

Rating: 9/10 (22 January 2009)

What a sleeper of a movie; who would have ever thought that a movie about an interview would ever sustain interest for as long as this gem. Diane and I lived through all of these events but they happened in the months of our migration to Australia so those events come through history's washer a little more soiled than I would like. This wonderful movie passes through those amazing events easily and renders their complexity clearer. As I commented earlier, watching a reasonably long movie about a TV interview does not, superficially, sound as something that would fly. However, in the hands of superb actors, an excellent script and director and you will be present at a great viewing experience.I thought the movie focused brilliantly on the complexity of Nixon. The depth of feelings enunciated by Nixon in the telephone call to Frost before their explosive final interview showed a man who felt so strongly about the society that surrounded him that he allowed those feelings to cloud the decisions he made during his presidency. The movie touches only briefly on those actions because the script examines the drama between Nixon and Frost and that drama certainly provides the viewers with substance enough. Given the depth of his feelings one can only draw parallels with the new American president Barak Obama who,although a graduate of Harvard law school, journeyed to the presidency from a modest background so similarities are present. This is a history film but it is so much more complex than that. It is an examination of a complex man who dealt, obviously incorrectly, with a weight of personally historical demons.