Head Of State

Head of State is a comical movie that pokes fun at today's political system. In the movie Mays Gilliam, the main character, is instructed to say what the people want to hear rather than how he really feels. This relates to today's political system because a candidate in any political position will do exactly what they are told to do in order to appear the way the people want the person to appear. When he finally mans up and says the things he feels, he gets a big push of supporters due to his down to earth and relate-able personality. This is what ultimately wins him the election and the presidency.

Over the course of his candidacy, Mays Gilliam evolves as a candidate but not a person. At the beginning of the movie he tells a man that he would drive him to work if the man could not get there. In the middle of his candidacy, the same man could no longer get to work and Mays Gilliam stopped what he was doing to bring the man to work. As a candidate he only started of has an alderman who had no intentions of ever becoming the president of the United States. His political platform did change a little bit but that is only because he stopped listening to the people trying to tell him what to do.

He also portrayed a more stereotypical candidate at the beginning of his campaign. He did this by doing very many speeches and stating that where ever he was, the people there were the backbone of the nation. This relates to many candidates in today's politics because they just tell people what they want to hear. Mays Gilliam is what many people today would hope for in a candidate. I am not referring to his political platform but to his openness and to his sense of reality that he had upon the world. He was a very down to earth candidate and I feel that many people would like to see someone like this run for presidency in the future of this country.