“My whole idea was to understand how power can twist someone,” McKay says of his impulse to make “Vice.” “I think by the end, the movie’s a grand tragedy. I don’t think that’s going soft on someone at all, saying that he ends with an emptiness. His family is split apart. His country is split apart. And it was all for this power they were chasing that metastasized by the end.”

Source: Los Angeles Times January 04, 2019 15:56 UTC