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What made Bobby an incredibly fascinating movie was the director's depiction of the day Bobby Kennedy died.The movie uses actual archival footage of the time and actual speeches by Bobby Kennedy. Emilio Estevez wrote, directed and also acts in the movie.
In some ways Bobby should be coupled for a night of viewing with the documentary, One Bright Shining Moment.
Both cover the Democratic presidential campaign 0f 1968.
In Bobby, the lives of twenty-two people come together at the Ambassador Hotel on June 6, 1968(The entire film takes place on one day) when RFK is assassinated.The twenty-two whose stories make up much of the movie really aren't strangers rather archetypes-their stories intersect at the Ambassador Hotel. Again, what a Interesting way to tell a story with a great cast of actors.
What this movie did for me is the same thing that One Bright Shining Moment did-make me wonder what would have happened if Eugene McCarthy or Bobby Kennedy had won the presidency. Well, we know what did happen. Nixon won and it was business as usual.
For me, the fascination is with the political process. Acknowledgement that the process is not somewhat corrupted is naive in my view. With politicians, to include the Presidency, there's always a taint of, if not corruption, then compromise.
Still, presidents send us off to war and that alone makes who is President very important.
There's a scene in Bobby where we are looking at an actual protest march and the signs indicate at that time, only 8000, have been killed in Vietnam. Eventually it was 58,000.
In light of our political season, this movie should be a must watch for Americans who care. 2 Parachutes.
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