As some of you may know, I like politics, so when someone recommends me a series or movie about it, I automatically write it down on my list. A few days ago I found a movie, Miss Sloane, and it quickly got my attention, it did not take me long to see it and now I comment about it.

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Year: 2016 Category: Political Thriller. Director: John Madden. Cast: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alison Pill, Jake Lacy, John Lithgow, Sam Waterston.

Plot

Elizabeth Sloane, one of the best lobbyists, decides to change firm to support the Heaton-Harris bill, which aims to increase the timeframe for obtaining guns.

Opinion

The film starts just before the end of the story, showing Elizabeth Sloane preparing to attend a congressional hearing led by Senator Ronald Sperling. Once there, they pose some questions that she evades by appealing to the fifth amendment. Automatically the movie redirects us to the past, 3 months and 1 week before, and we are presented again to Sloane, now working for Cole Kravitz & Waterman, a lobbying firm where she is shown attending a meeting with Bill Sanford, representative of the arms industry, which is trying to convince Sloane to support her to lead the opposition to the Heaton-Harris bill which seeks to expand the background check for the purchase of weapons with the aim of increasing the popularity among the female voters. The proposal is rejected by Sloane who is recruited by Rodolfo Schmidt, member of the lobbying firm Peterson Wyatt, to support the bill instead of opposing it, Sloane accepts and takes with him the members of his team that decide follow her.

From that moment a Thriller of a purely political nature begins, the film becomes an episode of House of Cards, giving total importance to the character played by Jessica Chastain which carries all the weight of the film, 90% of the time it is she who appears on the screen, giving of course an excellent interpretation.

I must say that the comparison I made with House of Cards is not random, the film seems to have been inspired directly from the Netflix series, many things that the series shows, are shown in a way that borders on plagiarism, and I do not mean the way they show how the gears move in american politics, no, I mean scenes that are very similar, as I write this I particularly remember a scene where Sloane attends a television debate and uses an identical tactic, not to say the same, to the one used by Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey, also during a television debate in one of the chapters of the first season.

In fact, the character of Chastain has some similarities with the Spacey character, we could say that it is a female version, both know how to play at a higher level than others, and although they have different objectives, both are highly destructive people who are able to use people as instruments to obtain what they are looking for.

The rest of the performances are very good, but none stands out too much. The photographic work is well done providing a very stylized and pleasant aesthetic, however, it does not generate any image that you will remember especially after watching the film.

I would only recommend the film to people who are very involved in politics, I think this film is aimed at that kind of audience and it is they who should see it, however, I think the film is halfway there, because it is too political to keep the apolitical viewer attentive to what is being told and lacks political depth for those who know everything about that world.

The best thing about the film without a doubt is the performance of Chastain.

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Score

7/10

A well-made film with a turn in the script and that I recommend only those who understand politics.