Posted on 12/02/2016 9:17:17 AM PST by KingofZion
Let’s stipulate right away to a couple of things about “Jackie.” That Natalie Portman’s portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy during and immediately after her husband’s assassination rises above impersonation to an eerie kind of incarnation: She’s got the voice, the look and a devastated spirit that still has plenty of steel. Also, that the film is generation-sensitive. For those who remember exactly where they were when the news came in, some of these blood-soaked images retain the power to evoke astonishingly strong feelings of shock and grief. This is by way of saying I may have seen a different “Jackie” than others will see, one that made me recoil at replayed moments of horror, and sometimes squirm like a voyeur. But Pablo Larraín has made a strangely conflicted film that portrays Jackie as an obsessive mythmaker and keeper of the flame—an ironic, provocative approach—yet celebrates the Camelot myth in the process.
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This tragic scene with Jackie holding Pres. Kennedy’s shattered head, has been depicted so many times. It has become the modern day Pieta Pose for Baby Boomers.
Maybe this movie will have been worth doing, since Natalie Portman is a very good actress.
Spoiled, elitist bubblehead who married a skirt-chasing son of a rum-runner. If that’s Camelot, I’m Morgana Le Fay.
I really do admire her, Democrat, Republican or other. Can’t imagine having to go through that kind of trauma.
Gee. I only remember her scrambling out the back of the convertible over the trunk.....and getting pushed back in by SS.
People say she was grabbing pieces of his brains, but I believe in that like I do the tooth fairy.
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I agree.
I enjoyed “Jackie Brown”.
My father always told me that whilst JFK was morally lacking and made his career off his daddy’s money, he was at least a Patriot.
He would never be aligned with the Marxist, America-haters of the modern day Democrats
Jackie Kennedy knew what was going on with her husband and other women, but she made her choice, and lived with it.
I don’t doubt that she still loved her husband (maybe blindly) and the accounts of her actions on that day (I am not a fan) are heartbreaking, no matter who you are.
I just read where she was walking around in a daze after they came into Parkland Hospital, and she walked up to one of the physicians and handed him something she had been walking around with.
It was a chunk of brain tissue she had clutched in her hand for about 15 minutes.
Awful. The physician gently took it from her and turned around and immediately handed it to a nurse. You have to wonder how bizarre that had to be.
Rum-runner, vote buyer father paid her $1,000,000 (lots of money way back then) not to divorce JFK. You know what that makes her. Camelot was phony.
Jackie got several million, a huge amount in the 1960’s.
Onasis and his staff said Jackie cost the same as a large oil tanker. Onasis and his staff referred to Jackie as the tanker.
Over the years, I have come to dislike many things about Kennedy and his family, but I don’t doubt that today, he would not be welcome in the Democratic Party.
It looked to me like she was trying to get the SS guy’s attention which was of course not necessary but was an instinctive movement. I am anything but a fan of “Camelot” but she did not do anything wrong there.
For those of us who live on planet reality it will cause you to wonder what those people were smoking.
She still sat next to a man whose head had been blown off and handled it with dignity.
The original Camelot was also phony. That we desire a Camelot is simply a recognition of our desire, not for a human Camelot, but for the New Jerusalem, with the (to use the FReepername) King of Zion on the throne. Everything else is at best a valiant attempt, at worst a sordid parody.
Ah, the good old days when the leftist media could tell people anything and mostly get away with it.
YES!
I have known some that endured a similar, though not totally unexpected trauma.
Never the same afterward.
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