![]() ![]() All we know initially is that out of eight New York City-based members of the press who stood together and witnessed some kind of spectacle, four have recently died under suspicious circumstances. We get very little detail and just have to take the events at face value, without understanding much about the background behind the actions of the characters. Singer’s omniscient narrator tells the story in a purposefully vague way. PARALLAX VIEW TVArmy in the ‘40s, and who at the time of the novel’s publication worked at his father-in-law’s printing business while doing some writing for TV in his spare time. It was the debut work of published fiction by Loren Singer (1923-2009), a guy who had learned some things about covert government operations while serving in the U.S. Let’s start with a discussion of the novel. With the Criterion Collection set to release a new version of The Parallax View in early February (and with distrust in our political leadership having reached another peak over the past four years), now’s a great time to revisit the movie, as well as the book that served as its basis. Based on a 1970 novel by an obscure author, and directed by the same man who would adapt All the President’s Men for the big screen in ’76, The Parallax View took all of that suspiciousness and wariness many felt about secret government dirty deeds and channeled it into a major motion picture. PARALLAX VIEW MOVIEOne day before the publication of Bob Woodward’s and Carl Bernstein’s 1974 Watergate expose book All The President’s Men, a film about frightening doings involving political assassinations opened in movie theaters. If all of that wasn’t enough to make Americans paranoid about the dastardly lengths to which our elected leaders might stoop in order to serve their special interests, we had Watergate in the early ‘70s. Many still wondered whether the individuals held responsible for their killings acted alone, or were scapegoated patsies hired by government officials or other politically influential groups who felt threatened by their agendas and the adulation they inspired in much of the public. ![]() and Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The country still had not gotten over the 1960s assassinations of beloved young leaders John F. The early-to-mid 1970s was a time when Americans’ distrust in our politicians was at a peak. ![]()
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