sâmbătă, 23 septembrie 2023

JFK by Oliver Stone, creator of Platoon http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/02/platoon-by-oliver-stone.html and more fabulous films - 8 out of 10

 

JFK by Oliver Stone, creator of Platoon http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/02/platoon-by-oliver-stone.html and more fabulous films

8 out of 10

 

 

In some ways this is the perfect motion picture, with a brilliant (if often excessive, in awe of dictators) director, fantastic cast, captivating story, alert rhythm, enticing propositions, a mix with everything in it, and yet, what it sells you is a lie, which is not on the scale of the ‘stolen elections’ scenario, but nevertheless, the story that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by the CIA, Cubans, the Mafia or a combination of these is absurd.

 

Not absurd, it is wrong to put it that way, maybe just because it makes some ‘sense’, we are able to watch this long movie, and even get excited by it – my favorite discovery of these past years is Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, I have read about twenty five of his masterpieces and have been elated, one of them is The King’s English http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html

The glorious author looks at a number of words and how they have changed, lost their significance – take infamous, which comes from infamy, but had arrived at the stage where it is used for ‘famous’, and therefore, Sir Kingsley Amis says it is no longer recommended – and he mentions exciting, which because of advertising and media was used at such a frantic pace that everything was exciting, soap, toothpaste, shows…

 

JFK was a flawed man, I think I have read somewhere that he said ‘he must be with a woman (sleep) every other day or so’ and he did not mean Jackie (she was present in a documentary about Maria Callas, aired last night, and I have a feeling that she was not such a saintly figure either, and then what was all that fuss about her being gorgeous, she does not appeal to me in the least, as if this matters)

Notwithstanding that, he may have had the making of a great leader of the world (think of the Orange buffoon that may get elected, again god damn it, next year…compare him with JFK) and we could only refer to the Cuban Crisis, when humanity could have been terminated – what would Trump do in a major crisis, never mind that he creates them, he wants to bomb…Mexico, but how will we be doing when a self-obsessed ‘big brain and very stable genius’ self-proclaimed will be faced with Armageddon?

 

True, I answer my own rhetorical question and relax, for in really extreme situations, it may not matter, and we have brought ourselves on the brink collectively – I am reading a book on The Secret of Our Success, which argues that we ‘stand on the shoulders of hobbits, not giants, it is the wisdom of the crowds that took us where we are, so if it ends, it will not be the Confidence Man only, though he makes for a good paradigm

 

In the 1990s I was in the hospitality business – in short, I took part in the Revolution, and you will have a link at the end of this article, then met Michael Meyers from Newsweek, worked for the media and got a recommendation for the American Embassy and then offered them and the other entities, USAID, Peace Corps, American School, UK, Canada and other embassies tours – and met with a fellow, David Popp

His family came from Maramures, he had his father, no, I think it was the grandfather with him, and as he introduced himself as the client to go on the trip with me, after a couple of minutes he said ‘he is with the Secret Service’, which gave me a scare, for in our communist regime, that was associated with terror, oppression and all that, besides, Secret means secret, so how and why are you telling me that?

 

In the specialized motion pictures, you get that cliché ‘if we tell you, we have to shoot you’, but my client told me afterwards that the Secret Service is in fact the agency that offers protection to presidents and important officials (and curiously, it also deals with counterfeit currency, he would call me a few years later from Italy, where I think he was into that latter operation) and it is not really undercover, or not all that much

I asked David about JFK and the series of conspiracy theories surrounding the subject and he answered that it was Oswald Lee and there is nothing further to it, which is what I believe…if we do some psycho or just analysis, then it is true that with conspiracy theories all over the place, there is an allergy, bringing something to absolute exaggeration, hearing falsehoods ad nauseam, you refute even sensible theories

 

However, this is what the motion picture and Oliver Stone argue, making a solid case, as in they put together a puzzle that seems to fit, you start believing that all these Cubans (Joe Pesci in a flamboyant appearance) must have wanted JFK dead, and then the Mafia, which saw its dealings compromised, they thought they had access to Kennedy, there is another film that says they pushed women, or one in particular (it would not be Marilyn, do you think) and wanted to control the president through blackmail…

President Kennedy was in fact very sick, a documentary (actually, there must be more than one) explains how he was drugged to be able to stand the pain and basically function – if I remember this well, but he was horny as hell, though if we look at the depths to which the standards have plunged, with the Supreme Ghoul elected after he talked of ‘grabbing women by their pussy’, and with four years of bedlam, madness still a favorite to become the Republican nominee, with ninety one counts and four jurisdictions where he is on parole and say that JFK was Saint Augustine when compared with Satan himself, for those who believe in scriptures…that is exactly those who side evil these days alas

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html  

 

 

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