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Fine entertainment, but it's also historical distortion
I liked Oliver Stone's "JFK", just as I like "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July". However, I find some of the historical inaccuracies of this film to be disturbing. This movie implies that it knows all the facts about what really happened on 22nd November 1963, and the scenarios and characters of the story are designed to fit the theories of Oliver Stone and Jim Garrisson. The movie makes a world class villain out of Clay Shaw and many other people, and while it may indeed be true that Clay Shaw actually did what Garrisson SAYS he did, it's nonetheless true that there is no absolute proof regarding the matter, and it's also true that this movie will convince the viewer that not only Shaw, but a lot of other guys were behind a gigantic conspiracy and cover up. Nobody is going to seriously deny that there's a cover-up in the Kennedy murder (especially nowadays), but to do these posthumous character assassinations -- especially without clear cut proof -- is going to convince a lot of viewers out there that Garrisson's take on the JFK slaying is the DEFINITIVE take. It's also a disservice to Shaw's relatives -- who knows? Maybe Shaw is innocent after all, and here we are watching a movie that makes him into some permiscuous, cold-blooded liar and killer. Lots of people will think the movie JFK is like watching history -- it isn't. It's a dramatization of the highest order based on theories that may or may not ever be proven, and if you ask Oliver Stone why he didn't put a disclaimer either at the beginning or end of his movie (such as "the following [or preceding] is a dramatization based on theory"), he'll probably give you some cockneyed tale about how it never occurred to him to do so. The truth is probably that he knew that placing a disclaimer ANYWHERE on his movie (which would have been the responsible thing to do) would weaken its pretentious claim as being the whole truth about the assassination. Overall, it's a good film, but that's all it is: a movie. PS: FBI reports and eventual admissions from Jim Garrisson himself PROVE that Garrisson had links to the mafia, and it's also true that as the early to mid 1970s wore on that Garrisson's theories and accusations grew more and more senseless and slanderous. By the 1980s an early 90s, he was more or less a big, sad joke. He had the right idea, maybe, but never the skill or sublety to find things out without alienating the world.

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VERY IMPRESSIVE FILM
Whatever you feel what went down that fateful day you gotta give him a hand for having the gumption to tell a political story.Hollywood is a gutless and braindead junkyard.I become interested in the JFK case when I first seen this film in the theatre back in '91.I was really impressed by this film.Film has it's own langusge and Oliver Stone is a master of using film to tell a story.This is one of the most engrossing films to watch.It should be studied by film schools and used as a bible on the art of becoming a movie director.I SENSE STONE believes there's a conspircy and cover-up.And a clue leads me to think a general LANSDALE played a important part.All the actors were very good but I was especially impressed by John Candy as Dean Andrews and Tommy Lee Jones as Clay Shaw.I love this film and think its a one of our great american films but there's one or two flaws.First as much as I love Joe Pesci I think he overdid the David Ferry part.He comes off as a ranting clown.Also some of family comes of f bad in diologue.I know Oliver used some F-words so Jim Garrison doesn't come off as a flawless saint.I wish he could of been more
]subtle.Oliver Stone is not a subtle type of guy.He's the closest thing next to a modern day Sam Fuller.Like Fuller he's passionate and very opinionated.He pisses off alot of folks butwe need more people like him .

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Shocking and thought provoking
Okay, I have a little trouble with the swearing but guess people can ignore it or get a blocker. That said, this was an outstanding movie and really made you think about the unthinkable. There are coverups that most of us have no clue about.The higher ups regardless of what people may think pull many strings to get done what they want done. Those we have always sought to trust can also be the ones who betray us. War is money and I am convinced, that the murder of JFK was a well orchestrated event. Buy the DVD with the accompaining documentary. It amazes me how some people refuse to believe it. BELIEVE IT. I love America but we are no saints here. Money and power is always a driving force. Don't ever think it can't happen here. Kevin Costner gives a brilliant performance and the impassioned speech in court toward the end of the movie that he gave portraying Jim Garrison drew me in like nothing I have ever heard. Watch "Thirteen Days" first than this one and rethink the situation and see what you come up with.