janjard
Joined Sep 2022
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This is a methodical analysis of both the physical circumstances and political environment before and after the assassination.
The tentative conclusions reached by Stone are compelling. When combined with the details surrounding Robert Kennedy's assassination they are overwhelmingly so.
Some right wing ideologues appear to criticise Stone, not for being inaccurate, but for being 'un-American'. For example, there is a review here which exemplifies this attitude by claiming that Kennedy was a 'traitor'.
So much for democracy.
With this backdrop it is easy to see why Trump stopped the release of the final tranche of documents relating to the assassination. Who would want to be the person to reveal to the world that American institutions, with the complicity of powerful economic and political ideologues, murdered their own President.
The tentative conclusions reached by Stone are compelling. When combined with the details surrounding Robert Kennedy's assassination they are overwhelmingly so.
Some right wing ideologues appear to criticise Stone, not for being inaccurate, but for being 'un-American'. For example, there is a review here which exemplifies this attitude by claiming that Kennedy was a 'traitor'.
So much for democracy.
With this backdrop it is easy to see why Trump stopped the release of the final tranche of documents relating to the assassination. Who would want to be the person to reveal to the world that American institutions, with the complicity of powerful economic and political ideologues, murdered their own President.
This movie is a confronting and brilliantly directed biopic. Some of the critic's reviews are both simplistic and unjustifiably negative. The movie got a 14 minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, so I guess real movie buffs have no idea at all.
And the hypocrisy of some female reviewers to criticise the 'gratuitous' nudity is breathtaking. Some of these same reviewers lauded clearly gratuitous (and far more revealing) nudity in the trash tv series 'Minx'. One can hardly imagine the outcry if the same level of nudity (think exposed labia majora and minora) had been shown in this movie.
And the hypocrisy of some female reviewers to criticise the 'gratuitous' nudity is breathtaking. Some of these same reviewers lauded clearly gratuitous (and far more revealing) nudity in the trash tv series 'Minx'. One can hardly imagine the outcry if the same level of nudity (think exposed labia majora and minora) had been shown in this movie.
A better title for this series would have been Saints and Demons, with the 'saints' being the female characters and the 'demons' being the male characters.
It does an excellent job as an exposé of poverty in America, but it is risible as a feminist trope on male 'emotional violence'. The protagonists ex-partner is a character deserving of understanding, if not forgiveness, but the position taken by the creators (through their lead) is the antithesis of this.
I suppose this is understandable if you start from the position that most men are intrinsically violent and uncaring, and that most women are the opposite of this. However, this world exists primarily in an ideologically driven fantasy.
It does an excellent job as an exposé of poverty in America, but it is risible as a feminist trope on male 'emotional violence'. The protagonists ex-partner is a character deserving of understanding, if not forgiveness, but the position taken by the creators (through their lead) is the antithesis of this.
I suppose this is understandable if you start from the position that most men are intrinsically violent and uncaring, and that most women are the opposite of this. However, this world exists primarily in an ideologically driven fantasy.