The Candidate With a look of existential crisis, Bill McKay utters, “What do we do now?”. The Candidate shows us that people with good intentions often lose their way during an election process. This 1972 classic encompasses how the media turns elections into propaganda that often changes candidates into the standard norm of a politician. Nearly 40 years later, this American classic still has relevance today. This film was created in an era of cynicism and paranoia. Under Nixon’s time as president there were anti-war demonstrations going on against the invasion of Cambodia, the embarrassment of the Watergate scandal, and political leaders were assassinated. Many American people became dissuade with using political action and movies reflected
