JFK

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who killed john f. kennedy? by mixing authentic images with re-enacted scenes, black and white with color and with fast, complex editing and camera work, a dizzying cocktail of history and theories is created, from which no unambiguous answer can be given to the central question. a new question is raised: what is fact and what is fiction? in oliver stone's masterpiece it all runs together. the director has never claimed to be filming the truth, just a tantalizing alternative to the warren commission's conclusions that lee harvey oswald was the killer and fired three shots. the "evidence" of... read more

film #12 in operation: rewatch my blu-rays i havent seen in a long time true story: in high school, i was fairly obsessed with the kennedy assassination. this was just after when jfk came out and while i can't remember the first time i saw the film, i can't imagine that there wasn't a correlation even if it was only the publicity that the film had received. whatever the reason, it is safe to say that oliver stone's film had a massive effect on who i was during my formative years. a couple of decades removed from that point, i can also safely say that jfk is a good film, if not quite a great... read more