Stone’s Not Alone
A moviegoer both attracted to and repelled by the heavy-handedness of Stone’s previous work, I must say I fairly staggered out of the theater one recent Friday night after experiencing “JFK.”
The three-hour film reclaimed what I had lost to 27 years of media vulgarization and trivialization of the Kennedy assassination. The rot lifted from my soul, the viscera laid bare, I walked home, imagining what Russian citizens in the 1920s must have felt after seeing “Battleship Potemkin.”
A pox upon those who have discredited Stone’s demand for justice with unspecified allegations of historical fraud, or worse, without having seen the film at all. Methinks thou dost protest too much. Bravo, Oliver!
ANDREAS SAMSON
Hollywood
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