Really Interesting Film Depicting Epic Nightmare

Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2017)

This movie is psychologically difficult from the first jarring notes of the music, which evokes a nightmare throughout. Events told in flashback to a reporter. I didn't buy Natalie Portman as Jackie at first, but she quickly became very convincing as a stand in. Really made you think about the horror she experienced in all the little, practical details -- washing the blood off her face and clothes, being in the White House alone, trying not to lose it, facing her kids, dealing with the stupid things that people say, planning a funeral for the ages. Editing in real film was well done. Brief, graphic depiction of the shooting. It showed how fragile she was as a woman who's facing raising her kids alone, questioning her faith in God with a priest, and how she stepped up on a hero level to be a dignified example for the nation. You leave thinking that if JFK was a special (if flawed) man, he married a woman even more extraordinary.