“18½” Movie Review by Rafy Mediavilla (@Rmediavilla). #18andahalfMovie @DanMirvish @18andAHalf
"18½" Movie Review by Rafy Mediavilla (@Rmediavilla). #18andahalfMovie @DanMirvish @18andAHalf
When I started watching the project, I came in completely blind, with zero expectations, and came out absolutely blown away with what I saw. Nothing from the movie screams indie filmmaking, the cast is amazing, the script is tight, and the production design is superb.
To this day, no one knows who erased the 18½-minute gap in the Nixon Watergate tapes or why they were erased. Once the gap was discovered Nixon's presidency quickly unwound.
The film 181⁄2 is historical fiction. None of the main characters seen in the movie ever existed. That said, the 181⁄2-minute tape heard in the film are based on contemporaneous Nixon tapes and the historical record since that time. Some...
