#29 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie ListOliver Stone is sometimes a great director (Natural Born Killers) and sometimes an awful director (U-Turn), but for JFK he truly created a movie that transcended film and became a cultural phenomenon. And it's also really great, since I guess Titanic was a cultural phenomenon too, but that sure didn't make the final cut of my list. Anyway, I don't personally believe that there was any kind of massive, complex conspiracy to kill Kennedy, but the movie really takes an interesting look at the way we as a nation perceive and interpret the events around us, and whether there is actually any such thing as one solid "truth" to be found.
RATING: 92%
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Of course there's one solid truth--he didn't half get shot by Oswald alone and half get shot by Oswald working for the CIA. The question is whether we can uncover it without the historical-methodological equivalent of faster-than-light travel.
Our narrative representation of the past is "contested" and "socially constructed." The Newtonian chain of events that led to one or more bullets colliding with Kennedy's head in Dallas, on the other hand, was an actual, concrete occurrence. Saying something is epistemologically inaccessible shouldn't be the same as denying it any ontological status whatsoever.
I blame Foucault and his bullshit equation of power and truth.
Hey Glenn, remember in high school when you made me sit through all of U-Turn even tho I wanted to shut it off after about 15 mins? Yeah, add that to the list of things I'll never forgive you for, because that movie is a complete piece of crap.
John - Wrong.
Laurie - (this joke about forgiveness has been removed by the author)
Also, I'm disappointed that nobody complimented my MSPaint rendering of the JFK poster. That may be my best one yet.
U-Turn? OMG, I used to think Glenn was a gentleman but it turns out, like most men, he's a barbarian!
Yeah, and Twain thought Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte was his best book.
As much as I wanted to I couldn't sit through 3hrs of that! Maybe because I'm not American.
I just applied for a summer job at the Texas School Book Depository, now the Sixth Floor Museum. True story! It's funny to watch people from Connecticut wander out onto Elm, thinking the road is no longer fully functioning, then sprint out of the way when the light turns green.
I visited The Sixth Floor when I was 9 years old. It was interesting to me, even at that young, idiotic age.
I agree that JFK is very, very good cinema, even though it, like some other Stone films, is peppered thoroughly with bullshit "facts". It definitely got a whole nation talking, though!
The MS Paint poster rendering is impressive, Glenn. Sorry I didn't read this earlier.
Just so you know Glenn, I was about to complement you on the artwork.
But now you ruined it.
And by "complement" I mean compliment.
I don't like to watch movies where sad or bad things happen. I've never seen JFK, but it seems like this might be such a movie.
I cannot WAIT to see Dance Movie!!!
The sadness or badness of the things that happen in JFK are a matter of point of view.
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