"In order to keep their children from leaving the commune, and hold onto their power, the Village leaders manufactured "monsters" in the woods. Some have speculated that this is a metaphor for Bush and the war on terror."
If that's the basis for a charge of bush-bashing, it sounds kind of thin. Well, you can find metaphors anywhere you want, I guess.
I saw The Manchurian Candidate the other nite. Now a lot of people claim that is a bush-bashing movie too. Maybe Jonathan Demme meant it as an attack on Bush, but it worked out more in the opposite direction. To me and other people I talked to there were eerie Kerry parallels in the story of the fake "war hero." And Meryl Streep may not have intended it, but the character of the evil mother of the candidate seemed modelled on Hillary Clinton -- mannerisms were very reminiscent, I can't help thinking that Streep, either deliberately or inadvertently, was channelling HRC.
RE: "Meryl Streep may not have intended it, but the character of the evil mother of the candidate seemed modelled on Hillary Clinton "
Streep was confronted on this point and after denying it for serveral days, then came up with a claim that it was modelled on Peggy Noonan.
I almost fell off my chair laughing. I'm a huge news junkie and even I have rarely seen Peggy on TV. So it's obvious to me that Streep would never have seen enough of Peggy to form any basis.
When I saw the original a few years ago on DVD, I thought "Hillary" everytime I saw Angela Lansbury.