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It's like any other film that's basedon real events ... usually liberties have been taken to promote the producers' and/or director's vision. It's not meant to be a documentary, and shouldn't be taken as such.
Oh yeah but this movie takes an unusual amount of liberties, far more than what is expected, to the point of even distasteful perhaps. Like how they say that LBJ was complicit in the conspiracy.
That's like making a 9/11 movie today, saying that Barrack Obama was part of the 9/11 attacks or something. Wouldn't that come off as distasteful possibly?
Oh yeah but this movie takes an unusual amount of liberties, far more than what is expected, to the point of even distasteful perhaps. Like how they say that LBJ was complicit in the conspiracy.
That's like making a 9/11 movie today, saying that Barrack Obama was part of the 9/11 attacks or something. Wouldn't that come off as distasteful possibly?
I don't know about distasteful, but considering he was just an Illinois state Senator at the time, I think it would be a very obvious work of fiction.
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As a movie, it's brilliant. Probably one of the best edited movies ever made.
As history, it borders on nonsense. By the time you get to the end, the movie has concluded that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy involving Cuban expatriates, the Soviet Union, a sort of weird cult of southern homosexuals lawyers and prostitutes, the Mafia, the Roman Catholic Church, Lyndon Johnson, the State Department, the military industrial complex, the CIA, southeast Asian drug cartels, Woody Harrelson's dad, and the Texas KKK. Only the Boy Scouts and the Arbor Day Foundation are left unscathed --- and we're none too sure about the Boy Scouts.
Interesting as hell. Just like the assassination. I don't know why the public is not equally intrigued by the RFK assassination which is every bit as sketchy. I have several pet suspects for both and I'm sure that I'll never know for sure.
That's just it though. Perhaps if Stone were to pick a conspiracy story rather than throwing everything in the pot, cause perhaps throwing everything into the pot makes it feel even more like a propaganda movie?
It's an impressively made movie constructed from great heaping gobs of nonsense. Should have been titled, "JFK on the Orient Express"... because in Billy Stone's view, everyone did it.
But why make a movie with all these nonsensical plots thrown into the plot? Why didn't Stone just make a movie, about Garrison trying to indict and expose Clay Shaw only, and just have it be about that? Wouldn't that serve as powerful historical drama, rather throwing all these nonsensical plots in?
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