| It's as if a national-amnesia button got pushed, one able to wipe out memories of the actual President: the former reality-show star, real-estate brander, double-talker, and serial distorter of reality. |
| Very soon we realise that this film is not merely set in LA, it's about Hollywood as a place, an industry, a creator and shaper of dreams and narratives, a distorter and destroyer of lives. |
| Accessible, emotive, the ultimate conveyor or distorter of truth, the photograph is all-powerful. |
| The functioning principle of the distorter is very simple. |
| Urdu, a distorter of tongues, pilfering as it does from Persian, Hindi, but largely Arabic, uses the masculine word for coup d'etat – inqilab – for revolution, rather than the accurate feminine: thawra. |
| Doing so when newspapers and commercial broadcasters are facing difficulties that paint its role as a market distorter in a stark new light is harder. |
