To achieve this, it takes three distinct approaches at once.įirstly, you have what could be best described as the " straight" biopic. Vice is a film with a very clear goal: to highlight to a general audience that Dick Cheney was a bad person by way of his manipulative actions throughout his political life but specifically the Iraq War. One disinterested member of the group turns away as the fight erupts and remarks that she's looking forward to the new Fast & Furious movie.
Here, the group falls apart over disagreement over whether it's liberal propaganda or scathing takedown, leading to fists. Vice has a mid-credits scene that takes the film back to the focus groups where the Iraq War was developed, only with a meta twist: now they're discussing the movie itself. He believes he can do better for the population than they admit, leaving the movie on an aggressive note.īut that's not the actual end.
The movie comes to a close with an interview where Cheney defends his increasingly-controversial actions to the audience, with Bale speaking in real quotes that highlight an ultimate callousness and disregard for the American people and its interests. Vice's ending zips the audience through the fallout of the Iraq War, skipping anything from Bush's second term to deal with Cheney's "new heart", gained after a near-fatal heart attack from Jesse Plemons' narrator Kurt who's been shown impacted by various Bush administration events like 9/11 and the Gulf conflict. Dick bounces back and begins building daughter Liz for a life in politics, in the process having to approve targeting his other daughter, Mary, for whom he'd avoided engaging with gay marriage debates previously.
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