Sooner or later, does everyone's integrity have a price? At what point do our values succumb to our ambition for success? Such questions are at the root of The Ides of March, a slow but effective political drama that pins morality against ascendancy and asks us which one is more important, especially when we live in a world where corruption and dishonesty are inevitable. If that's the case, should we attempt to change the system or take advantage of it because we figure it's always going to be this way? By the end, the movie leaves us something to think about, even though we already started thinking about it by the end of the first act. This is not an innovative film that breaks new ground, but it gets to the meat of its subjects and we respond to it.
The co-writer and director is George Clooney, an outspoken liberal who obviously uses the film as a platform to express his own political views. But this makes sense if you think about it, since he plays one of the remaining two candidates in the Democratic Presidential Primary, when his character talks about things like freedom of religion and being against the death penalty, Clooney makes him all the more credible because he's speaking from his own heart. He plays Mike Morris, Governor of Pennsylvania, who's vying for his party's nomination against an Arkansas senator. Each man needs Ohio to win, and in order for that to happen, they need the endorsement of another senator (Jeffrey Wright), a man who, like so many men, can be persuaded with the right sop.
Swept up in the middle of it all is Morris' Junior Campaign Manager, Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling), who truly believes in what the governor has to say. Meyers has stringent principles and says he'll do or say anything as long as he believes in the cause. He's more idealistic than his boss, Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who's misanthropic but remains doggedly dedicated to his candidate.
Eyeing the ambitious Myers is Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti), the campaign manager for Morris' opponent. He asks the young man for a drink and asks him point blank to come and work for him. The meeting alone calls Myers' loyalty into question. Complicating things further is Ida (Marisa Tomei), a tenacious reporter for the New York Times who received an anonymous tip about the meeting and threatens to run with it unless she's made privy to exclusive campaign information.
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