I wrote her first because the role plays an important role in the play. Compared with the first protagonist Francis, she is not so hateful. Even if this woman is about 87% as smart, rational and cruel as Francis. As she told her old flame Adam, she can only love you once in a while, but she can always love Francis except this week. Usually she obeys Francis, and she knows Francis. Francis can fulfill her intelligence, cruelty and rationality, so they are together. Two identical people, knowing each other, perfectly matched and flawless. So she can sacrifice her work, time and energy, and even restrain the natural possession and jealousy of human nature. Francis and Zoe's first love affair ended overnight, and she drank water calmly. "If you feel uncomfortable, I can ..." "No". But speaking of it, she is a person, a woman and a little homesick, but the screenwriter does show some sympathetic parts of Claire. She turned down her lover Adam at first. "Adam is at the XX Hotel." "What about you?" "I'm here." Francis, in the window where they talk about wine every night, Claire shows her loyalty. So when I said "no" later, I was extremely disappointed despite some restraint. Of course, this little disappointment was not enough to make her betray Francis. Francis's hegemony, despotism and exploitation in her career are the fundamental reasons for her disappointment, so she fled to the arms of her old lover Adam, an artist in new york. But this is an escape, only for a week. When she sat at the window before dawn and learned the news of Peter Russell's suicide, I guessed the truth of her affair and she knew better who she belonged to. Give Adam a paper crane and tell you, I gave you my innocence, which Francis didn't need, and then she got rid of it and went back to Francis. She is a smart, rational and ruthless successful woman.

A total loser in Peter Russell's movies. My most sympathetic character. He is so different from Francis that even his man Doug can't compare with him. Born at the grassroots level, climbed to Congress. You can't get rid of your illness It is difficult to obey power, but the conscience is still alive. There is no doubt that he is not suitable for living in the environment of it is politics repeatedly emphasized by Francis. Inevitable cowardice, alcoholism, prostitution, uncontrollable suspicion and betrayal of Francis, he is not the dish of power at all, but only one thing, he is kind. Although he can't, he is still willing to love others, and he is willing to make amends. His two children Christina, his friends, voters, his sincerity, especially Francis's toughness, brought him pain. Maybe this is how power tortures people. Without sin, you can't own, use and enjoy rights. Francis

The protagonist, through whom the screenwriter shows a mixed map of political humanity. What role human nature plays in the struggle for rights and how rights manipulate human nature are the most important parts of this political drama.

The objective perspective in the film is well matched with Francis's subjective voice-over, and the purpose of the scene is more clear. How to create momentum to fight back against the opponents in the education bill, how to use Peter Russell as a pawn, how to alienate the president and vice president, and even how to use his wife's company and her men to achieve the ultimate goal of power and power by skillfully controlling the weakness of human nature. In the film, he is a heinous person and totally unworthy of sympathy. As his former driver said, he is a bad guy.

Of course, even if the plot of killing Russell is removed and the audience returns to the essence of drama from the fantasy of reality, Francis is real in American politics, and objectively speaking, he is also restricted. Playing politics is within the scope of law, and the essential support of this kind of politics lies in election and democracy, that is, in election and democracy, there is room for discussion of human morality within the legal framework. Don't break the law, get support by disgraceful means, just want to tell you that politics is not a glorious play. However, at least their citizens have the right to choose, and they have the right to be deceived by hypocrisy, and this party can only watch them do evil and have no choice.