Posted on 04/11/2018 10:06:31 AM PDT by simpson96
Chappaquiddick is an impressive, fascinating and clinical film about a young Ted Kennedy, the power of myth and the corrosive cynicism of mythmakers.
And so the other day, in a Chicago movie theater, as the closing credits were rolling, people left their seats without saying, I really liked it or I really hated it.
The theater was as silent as that quiet moment just after a sigh.
But one man enjoyed Chappaquiddick so much that he gave it a slow long clap that went on and on. A few moviegoers obviously aging baby boomers raised on Camelot stared at him in irritation, their hands on hips, heads tilted, like peeved, graying birds.
But he just kept on slow clapping because it was the right thing to do.
Chappaquiddick is set some 50 years ago, on a warm July night in 1969, when Edward Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) drives off a bridge and into the water, then leaves Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara) alone in the car to die.
That it has taken so long to tell this story on film is an indictment of the cynical politics of Hollywood. But in this film, there is at least one moral character: Kennedys cousin, Joe Gargan (Ed Helms).
After Kennedy abandoned Kopechne in the water, he walks all the way back to his rented house. Gargan sees him there, dripping wet and staring out into space.
Come on, Teddy, says Gargan. Whats the big idea?
Im not going to be president, Kennedy says.
It is an astonishingly honest line, full of self-pity, full of real pain, full of the heavy weight of family obligation and the memory of his late brothers Joe, John and Robert.
It was just one line in a superb performance by Clarke, and oddly,
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Far more than just an indictment of Hollywood. Millions of people, both sides of the aisle in Washington, and most of the media share in that shameful indictment.
Logo on the truck.... “You wreck em, we fetch em” Mary Jo was already taken out by the diver.
It was The Wreck of the S.S. Oldsmobile!
JFK was having an affair with a Communist agent.
The story was about to break.
This was the early 1960s, and people loved Jackie Kennedy.
It would kill the Democrat Party.
So JFK was killed to save the Party.
No. Not this movie, nor the facts, support "Dead" being in the car at this point.
Myth? Yah...pull the other one,it's got bells on!
I think that’s referring to cars, not bodies. Appropriate for a towing company.
It should have been made in 1970, and it should have been a documentary.
i kept thinking that the cover-up team concept from this incident lives on today, to wit, all the officials - from
Doj FBI in particular - and enablers complicit in deep-sixing HRClinton e-mail “investigation”/”matter”
With only the letter K visible, I thought it read,
“You Dunk ‘Em, We Fetch ‘Em”
;^)
It should have been released the day after Swimmer Kennedy croaked. Why did it take nine years?
The movie is a day late and a dollar short.
You’re right; what do millennials care about an event from nearly fifty years ago?
People my age remember not only Chappaquiddick (like where I was when I heard about it) but Kennedy’s 1965 open-the-floodgates Immigration Act.
Kennedy personally murdered Mary Jo Kopechne but is also responsible IMO for generations of victims murdered by third world migrants whose easy entry was made possible by his despicable legislation.
Kennedy died of an inoperable brain tumor; I believe it was karma that he had to helplessly contemplate his impending doom over a long period. Hope that nightmares of a smiling Mary Jo filled his days until he finally croaked.
https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2003/01/05/kennedy_unbound/?page=1
If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age, wrote the Globes Charles Pierce.
This degenerate is burried in Arlington.
The front page color photo, several days later, of Teddy giving his mom roses told me everything I needed to know about that paper. It’s decomposing pustule lingers on thanks to big-money, cynical Libtards.
I saw this movie yesterday. Well made. Jason Clarke deserves an Oscar nomination for his skilled portrayal of Ted Kennedy.
Ted is portrayed rather sympathetically as an dim witted, immoral man trapped in an evil family dynasty. His cousin Joe Gargan is seen as a victim. Bruce Dern is truly frightening as old Joe Kennedy.
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