this film was a tour de force. So evocative of the late 60's and 70's when it seemed like another assassination would happen every other day. I found myself days after I had seen the film mimicking Kevin Costner in his role as Jim Garrison. The scene I think I liked best was when he was talking to the former black ops guy Donald Sutherland. When he starts talking about the government conspiracies and the covert operations of this country it almost makes me want to give up screenwriting and work in the CIA or the State department. It even creates the emotion of regret; maybe I should have majored in political science and done something with that. You practically need a degree in government to comprehend what Sutherland is saying. But it seems on the level.
The best thing about JFK might be it's editing. There are so many cuts to the imagined past that one starts to think how much liberty Oliver Stone took in depicting some of the events of the film. For example, how did the bullet get on the gurney? Or who was the general in the operating room? These are questions that don't get answered and were criticized when the film was releases as being too hard to prove and too much poetic license exercised by Stone. Yet the editing is incredibly good. Fast cuts, slow cuts, flashbacks, jump cuts, the entirety of the film editors weaponry is unleashed in JFK.
Stone has said that JFK was when he was at the top of his game. He might be right. It is an excellent film. Full of intrigue, action, and drama. I couldn't tear my self away the first time I watched, and the second time went by very quickly, but it lost none of it's intensity. I enjoyed every minute.
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