Jackie Fails To Fully Explore Her Humanity

Rating: 7/10 (28 August 2017)

Finally,I have seen "Jackie".Now,I am going to make a review on it.No question about it.After I have finally found time to watch it in my very busy schedule,I can only say these words after I have seen it,"I am disappointed".
"Jackie" is a film that is based on the interview of Theodore H. White of the former first lady,Jacqueline Kennedy after the assassination of President John F.Kennedy.It stars Natalie Portman who portrays the role of Jackie Kennedy together with Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and John Hurt.
The film starts when Jackie was interviewed by a journalist who happens to be Theodore White and takes us to the many events that have transpired during her and her husband's stay in the White House that ended in JFK's assassination. It presents us a peek on the private life of Jackie particularly the sorrow and misery that she has experienced and undergone when her husband was shot in Dallas,Texas and how different people around her tried to comfort her from her brother-in-law Robert Kennedy,President Lyndon Johnson and many others.
Too bad that the film does really nothing to tell her full story realistically as possible as it only tries to recaptures the events that took place and it does not explain what Jackie is all about as a person.Watching this film will not allow the viewers to learn more about her as her character is presented as we know her in documentaries about her for all it does is to recreate the persona and stays away to explore who the person really is. As she would say during the interview,"I maintain the right as to what comes out to the press",I felt that the movie makers felt the pressure of these words too while shooting this film as we practically know nothing new about her as it does not fully explore her humanity.
What saved it from being a bad movie is Natalie Portman's portrayal.She acted excellently in it.Too bad that she is conformed with a tight script that is too scared to fully tell her character's story and humanity to the viewers.Apparently,a lawsuit from the Kennedy family was probably not a good motivation at all.That is why the viewer is treated to an underwhelming and lifeless film.