JFK 1991
Director: Oliver Stone
This film is on the list of most controversial movies ever made for the silver screen. For a lover of conspiracy theories like me, it is God sent. Bring it on, I say!
Director: Oliver Stone
This film is on the list of most controversial movies ever made for the silver screen. For a lover of conspiracy theories like me, it is God sent. Bring it on, I say!
Even after the secret documents related to Kennedy's assassination is declassified in 2029, the conspiracy is not going die off. This 3hours 20mins story requires a lot of patience, and keen ears for dialogue as that is where the action lies. Forget about special effects and daredevil stunts.
It starts with the aftermath of JFK's assassination. As we know on the fateful day of November 22nd, 1963 in downtown Dallas, his motorcade was shot at. JFK perished, Lee Oswald was apprehended, he was shot dead by a Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner and that is it. No trials. The Warren's Commission put a lid on further speculation after its investigation concluded that Oswald acted unilaterally.
This film is actually the point of view of a particular DA from New Orleans, Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner),who was cocksure about his assumption that there was more to it than a lone man shooter theory and was out to prove against all the odds that there was a concerted effort by CIA to assassinate the President.
This film is actually the point of view of a particular DA from New Orleans, Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner),who was cocksure about his assumption that there was more to it than a lone man shooter theory and was out to prove against all the odds that there was a concerted effort by CIA to assassinate the President.
The actual story starts 3 years later when a Senator tells Garrison that there is more to it to the JFK killing. Re-reading the volumes of the Warren report showed more discrepancy. He and his team initiate a sensitive investigation which would involve male prostitution, homosexuals, anti-Castro movement, Free Cuba movements, Communisms, Kennedy haters, planned lax security during the President's Dallas, Vietnam War pull withdrawal and much more. Interesting information that he found during the investigation was the publication of Oswald's guilt and confession in New Zealand papers 4 hours before he was formally charged. That smelt of CIA cover-up.
After undergoing many turmoils in pursuit of proving his theory, Garrison had to endure many challenges to his life, job and family life. In the end, his case was brought to the grand jury. Clay Shaw was charged conspiring with CIA in JFK shooting. He managed to obtain footage of the event and proposed the theory multiple shooters based on the entry and exit wounds sustained by the victims. Oswald was just a decoy who did not even shoot a single bullet. Oswald was American agent who learnt the Russian language, denounced his American citizenship, defected to Kremlin, married a Russian wife and miraculously returned to America and led a normal interrupted American life. His whole submission, however, did not convince the jury. Clay was pronounced not guilty.
It is a gripping film with an array of superstars appearing and disappearing in many minor roles - Jack Lemmon (private investigator), Edward Asner (private investigator, ex-CIA, anti-communist), Walter Matthau (Senator on plane), Kevin Bacon (a gigolo), Joe Pesci, Donald Sutherland and even Jim Garrison appeared as a Judge! Tommy Lee Jones acted as Clay and Gary Oldman as Oswald.
Only in America you can fight the authority, accuse them of cheating full-scale, write books about it, make royalty from the screenplay and get away without being blown to smithereens....but then innocent school children will be shot for no apparent reason!
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