Unbelievable!!

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2008)

What a sad commentary on the world in which we live, that such a progressive, highly public figure and advocate for peace and racial harmony, is cut down in the prime of his life. Just another example of the flagrant travesty of justice and morality. I was but a youngster on the day of President Kennedy's assassination, but it is still a very raw, horrendously sad subject in my mind, even to this date. The fact that President Kennedy had personally known the horrors associated with war and vowed to avoid it at all costs, only exacerbates the heinous act itself and substantiates the need for the full disclosure of facts and further investigation into the possibility of some clandestine conspiracy and treasonable act. That such an egregious, cowardly act could have been perpetrated on this progressive human rights advocate, great man and political figure, only makes one shudder in disbelief. Just as the age-old saying predicts in the trenches: "There are no atheists in foxholes", Mr. Kennedy knew, firsthand, that the color of someone's skin is of no importance, especially when life and liberty are on the line and that the mere concept of war is, plain and simple, an aberration.
It further staggers the imagination that there could be even the possibility of some government cover-up against releasing the files associated with that tragic event and day. Just the notion of a conspiracy sends cold chills down one's spine, as it is an indictment on the most basic of moral values and democracy itself. To blatantly discard or detract from the intrinsic value found in the physical evidence of this case, reeks of a conspiracy in its own right. We all know that war is the biggest business of all where the rich only get richer and the good inevitably die young. Somehow I'm a bit surprised that a filmmaker was able to address this issue with relative impunity for broaching a subject of such delicate and potentially incriminating nature, although perhaps enough time has passed in history to relegate this event to the rhetorical or even dismiss it as simply artistic hyperbole and superficial speculation for the sake of the entertainment value alone. Unless, that is, the powers of corruption and darkness continue to run so deep as to infest and permeate the entire fabric of both the political and judicial machines. In any event, this film definitely strikes a chord of suspicion and is fodder for a complete and final investigation, if for nothing else, for history's sake. I salute Mr. Stone for this excellent dramatic achievement. It most certainly begs the question of just how safe are we from ourselves and if "Big Brother" could be a festering, insidious reality or a portent of things yet to come? Julius Caesar must be turning in his grave. Excellent film!!