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- Bulworth is in trouble. He hates his job and his life, and has just lost millions in the market. So he puts out a contract on his own life and flies back to California thinking he has three days to live. His impending death fills him with a sense of freedom: At last he is free to say exactly what he thinks, and that's what he does.
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I feel as if the way Bulworth is written as a character is meant to reflect the politics he advocates for in a satirical manner. His attitude towards Berry's character--that him appreciating her based on that speech--seems like a barb that's meant to reflect his selfish nature and his political drive.
Oct 25, 2016 · Warren Beatty’s 1998 political satire Bulworth still feels very relevant in 2016. It’s a film about the personal lives of politicians, which usually only emerge, in all honesty, to voters during times of scandal. Early on, we see Beatty’s titular left-wing but conservative Senator’s campaign to stay in office.
He's just flipping through channels so maybe he's fed up with life, as you said, or the media, or having to say the same thing over and over in his commercials (I think this one is explicitly shown), or he feels like a fraud, and I prefer it that way since it gives us something to discuss.
Tired of politics and unhappy with life, Bulworth makes plans to kill himself, and negotiates a $10 million life insurance policy with his daughter as the beneficiary. Knowing that a suicide would void the policy, he contracts to have himself assassinated within two days.
May 22, 1998 · Bulworth is in trouble. He hates his job and his life, and has just lost millions in the market. So he puts out a contract on his own life and flies back to California thinking he has three days to live. His impending death fills him with a sense of freedom: At last he is free to say exactly what he thinks, and that's what he does.
Jun 9, 2016 · The reliable Paul Sorvino is slightly sinister as an insurance man wanting political favors, and Oliver Platt is a scream as a political glad handler who cannot believe Bulworth is smoking marijuana, dancing and carrying on with a hot young black girl, and goes slightly berserk in the process.
An old-school 1960s liberal, Bulworth has tacked to the right on everything from affirmative action to health insurance for the poor to secure high-powered conservative campaign contributors. In this world, the Democratic Party lacks a soul. So Bulworth goes out and gets some soul -- black soul.
