After seeing Oliver Stone's W., I found myself wishing I had a
little more time to think it over before writing a review; then
again, I'm sure there are some involved with the film who found
themselves wishing they had a little more time to think over the
Bush administration before making it. Distance grants
perspective, or so we're told; what could a film about the life
and presidency of George W. Bush released while he's still in
office really have to say about his life and times? If distance
grants perspective, though, you could also argue that proximity
grants immediacy, and argue that Stone's W. is not meant as a
somber, serious look back but rather a cautious, nervy attempt
to peer into the recent past, a film with, in the words another
Presidential candidate recently borrowed, "the fierce urgency of
now."  But W. has plenty of urgency; you could argue that what
it lacks is a point of view, or rather a point of view other
than Freudian family psychodrama, with George W. Bush (Josh
Brolin) fighting for t