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简介：Ronald Reagan as a man, as compared to his legacy, is rich territory for exploration, and a line from Shakespeares Julius Caesar is just one of the many things that springs to mind after viewing filmmaker Eugene Jareckis latest opus, Reagan (Jareckis Why We Fight won the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize: Documentary). Speaking at his funeral, Mark Antony said of Caesar, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." With a firm grasp of Reagans story, Jarecki avoids the predictable and takes the long view on Reagans life and influence, while staying centered on him as a man of deep contradiction; an American whose patriotism paradoxically led him to impeachable acts, a liberal Democrat who came to define the modern conservative movement.…