Election . Tucson Weekly . 05-24-99

Election

DIRECTED BY: Alexander Payne

REVIEWED: 05-24-99

I've never really agreed with universal participatory democracy, because so much of the electorate is ill-informed and their votes are easily manipulated by demagogues and heartlessly ambitious power-mongers. (That's why I just let Tucson Weekly editor Jim Nintzel pick my votes for me...he's well informed and has no ambition. I call it Nintzelocracy.) Commenting on this, Election takes all the worst traits of American politics and squeezes them into a high school full of immature teens, which is pretty much what American politics looks like to the rest of the world anyway. Director Alexander Payne's sharp eye for satire makes Election the funniest, and one of the smartest, films so far this year.

--James DiGiovanna

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