Frame of Mind (film)
Frame of Mind is an American movie about the John F. Kennedy assassination. The film stars Carl T. Evans – who also directed the film – along with Chris Noth, Eric Michael Espiritu, and Tony Lo Bianco. Peter Criss, original drummer for the rock band Kiss, also appears in the movie. The film tells the story of New Jersey Detective David Secca, who discovers what appears to be new evidence relating to President Kennedy's assassination. The premises for the fictional account (there is no online record of any real "Vincent Garbone" the alleged Mafia hitman in the  story) are three frames of a homemade movie clip, a rifle that matches the one allegedly used by Lee Harvey Oswald, and a relationship between the Mafia and an aged employee of the NSA (to which the audience has privileged access). The lead cop spends the rest of the time gradually increasing the significance of the clip of a man hiding a rifle under his coat at Dealey Plaza to the point where he can convince Kennedy assassination expert and author played by Chris Noth that the images are relevant, as people start dying around them and the CIA and  mob start responding to his interest. "Frame of Mind" gives us a savvy, ironic view of some of the perceived dissembling by authorities but there were three actual photo frame images apparently and, as Noth's character states, people have spent decades trying to piece together the jigsaw. Secca in his final interview seems almost disappointed but who are the real omniscients, if anyone? Has the director got the right man? History currently provides us with a plethora of possibilities but little in the way of authoritative pointers to the significance of the alleged event or the genuineness of the  historical script. The film's title suggests a historical meta-narrative of either audience or actors' grip or lack of it of the realities or both, but this comment operates within the boundaries of its prescribed fictional limits. As realism its presentation of an alleged Mafia-state relation and contrast is perhaps its most subtle achievement. Possibly.