Whether you’re on his side or the other, you are acquainted with George W. Bush’s real nature as far as he has let it slip publicly. An image, no matter if it’s a figure before you or merely a screen reflection, can’t possibly be taken for granted. Thus, Oliver Stone’s “W.” may expose things you have learned or not about the sitting president and this little detail will make you enjoy or hate the filmmaker’s new production.

The young George W. Bush’s enduring fight with his father represents the psychological reinforcement of the film. How does it feel to be the drunken black sheep son of a war hero, flourishing businessman, congressman and president of the United States? How does it feel to be the reviled youngster in a family of self-starters? Josh Brolin gives life to all the feelings of soreness, dishonor, humiliation, bitterness, remorse and achievement the young lad went to throughout his early days.

“W.” brings to light several important people in Bush’s life. Therefore, James Cromwell, who tries to reveal as much as possible from George H.W. Bush’s persona, plays a somber, respectable man, who is unable to act when it comes to his oldest son, and eventually becomes ashamed of how W. performs his society role.

Oliver Stone had the courage to approach a goal that many professionals have failed to reach thus far: bring together understanding and blame, parody and consideration, and lead the faulty man into the experience of personal history and worldwide consequence.