The Ides of March is surely an interesting political drama directed by George Clooney (Ocean’s 11), who stars as Governor Mike Morris and as well stars Ryan Gosling (Full Nelson) as Stephen Meyer, a media analyst who together with Paul Zara played by the always impressive Phillip-Seymour Hoffman try and give Governor Morris a media edge as Ohio prepares to prefer a Democratic candidate to represent the party inside presidential election.

The Ides of March gives a look in the life of the political spin doctors and media advisers, that are never seen but make up the majority of a political candidate’s armoury. They may be willing to go that step further to obtain the candidate they feel in elected, complete with smearing the opposition as Governor Morris and his rival with the Ohio Primary fight for that Democratic nomination.

We get to delve into the mindsets with the characters and their determination to win without exceptions, in addition to being shall be assumed with the William Shakespeare inspired title; borrowed from his play “Julius Caesar”, backstabbing in the political world will not look like a big incident.

We join the movie as Stephen tests the microphone and layout of the televised studio Governor Morris will use along with his debate against his main rival for the Democratic nomination, and then we learn which the jobs of Stephen and Paul are not only to attack the opposition when using the media, but to pay for every angle to produce their candidate look great, now we fulfill the media spin doctor for that other camp, Tom Duffy, played brilliantly by Paul Giamati (Shoot Em’ Up), who’s envious of Stephen’s power to manipulate the press into saying just what he wants the crooks to say and is overtaken by Governor Morris, so when he tells him “You make it look easy, but we all know how difficult it is.”

Along with customary with political movies, we’re not truly an underdog, as things can change quite suddenly (you only have to go through the recent ratings between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to view this happening in the Republican race).

It turns out that Stephen’s idealism is going to severely tested, is actually none other than the gorgeous Evan Rachel Wood (whose blond hair makes her almost unrecognisable through the moody character she took part in The Wrestler), she plays Molly Stearns a young intern who eases in Stephen’s life telling him she gets been after him for a while.

Watching this movie you can view why it really is arranged to be a serious Oscar contender, the acting from Clooney as usual is top notch, and Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour-Hoffman, and Paul Giamati devote excellent performances.