Over the weekend the movie Frost/Nixon was being watched and slowly reviewed.

In the opening scenes of the movie the viewer enters a flash back of news reports of the infamous Watergate scandal coupled with President Nixon notice of resigning. The opening unlike anything I’ve ever seen is remarkable. Not many films could be able to pull off such an opening, lucky for them they don’t have to as Frost/Nixon already done it. Throughout the whole movie it is set up like one of those where are they now? shows.
If you never have seen Frost/Nixon before and you’ve never seen a where are they now episode of anything, then imagine the beginning of the movie The Incredibles where the heroes are being interviewed - well that is sort of how the movie is set up. The movie is in a form of one part interview, one part movie. A lay out that not many films have and it is too bad because it is good.

The main character David Frost (played by Michael Sheen) is an Austrian news show host who wishes to interview Nixon (played by Frank Langella) after he had resigned office. The interview is an hour long with each subject being talked about for twenty-five minutes. There are four different topics that they chose to discuss. One is the war, another (the one that everyone was waiting for) is Watergate.

Before the actual interview (which is viewed live) Nixon and his team research all what they’ll talk about during interview. With a different man covering a different area. While the group collects information they also practice “interviewing Nixon” on one of their teammates. That is one of the guys pretends to be Nixon and he is asked by another guy questions. The guy playing as Nixon is to answer questions as Nixon would.

Before the interview Frost met up with Nixon, they talked a little about how the interview would be laid out, with Watergate at the very end. Both parties agreed on this and it is how it was going to be until circumstances changed for some reason and at the very start of the interview Mr. Frost blindsides the former president with questions of Watergate. The first question was something to the like of “Why didn’t you burn the tapes?” This makes you feel a little bit sorry for Nixon. After all he was promised that Watergate would be talked about at the end of the interview and that is what he prepared for. During this time I thought I would not like to have that done to me.

Near the end of the movie (while Nixon is still being interviewed) Frost gets what he set out for Nixon admitting to what happened with Watergate and an apology from the former president to the people of the United States.

Towards the end of the movie just before the credits appear is a small little aftermath of what happened to the characters. If for some strange reason you didn’t know that this story was based on an actual event. After they roll up you finally know. A little bit of what we learned at the very end of the movie is that Frost went on to host more shows and interviews, though none was as famous as the one with Nixon. Nixon died from a stroke and it also stated the year that the Frost/Nixon interview happened.

This was a fine movie worth seeing. It is not like other movies but that’s a good thing. It is something different and after seeing it I had a desire to hear the original Frost/Nixon interview.