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I could remember the events that took place like they were yesterday. I was on lunch break from my third grade class, taking a bite of my sandwich, when the programming was suddenly interrupted: President John F. Kennedy had been shot while riding in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas, and had been brought to Parkland Hospital. So on this, the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination; I thought it would be appropriate to review the movie "Parkland." Writer-director Peter Landesman's movie Parkland, which is based on Vincent Bugliosi's book "Four Days in November," focuses more on the people that were on the perimeter of the incident, rather than on the assassination itself. The movie begins by showing businessman Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti) preparing to take a film of the president's motorcade with his 8mm movie camera as it proceeds towards Dealey Plaza. Zapruder, whose family had escaped the Nazis during World War 2, was about to witness one of the most infamous events in American history. Shots ring out, people start screaming; and Zapruder has it all on film. The scene shifts to Parkland Hospital in Dallas where an astonished group of ER doctors, which include Dr. Jim Carrico (Zac Efron) and Malcolm Perry (Colin Hanks), find themselves standing over the blood soaked president. Within minutes Kennedy is pronounced dead; a priest is brought in, and the mayhem begins. Hours later, FBI veteran Forrest Sorrels (Billy Bob Thornton) tracks down Zapruder and politely asks him for the film. (How and why he knew Zapruder had filmed the assassination is unexplained ─ and since when are assassination films of the president simply asked for by the FBI?) Dallas FBI special agent James Hosty (Ron Livingston) then finds out that he has letters in his desk from Lee Harvey Oswald (Jeremy Strong) which threaten to blow up his office, and subsequently Oswald is arrested at the Texas Theater in Oak Cliff taking in a matinee after being accused of shooting Officer J.D. Tippet. All sounds surreal, don't it? We are just getting started. A man shows up at the jail where Oswald is locked up claiming that he is Lee Harvey's brother, Robert (I didn't even know Oswald had a brother), and ask Lee what he has done. Lee claims that he has done nothing, and when his mother Marguerite (Jackie Weaver) shows up at lockdown and is interrogated by the FBI, she indicates that her son is an agent of the American government who is being framed. Two day later, a nightclub owner by the name of Jack Ruby shows up and executes Oswald on national television while he is being transported to court. The piece-meal acting by everyone involved is very good; especially the performance by Giamatti portraying the shell-shocked Zapruder, and the over-the-top Weaver as Oswald's mother, who now has a story to sell. But very little information is given on what happened to Marina (Oswald's wife) and her two children. After doing a little research on her, I could not believe what I uncovered. When I first moved to Dallas in 1983, my wife and I spent a few years in an apartment and then bought a house in Rockwall County (the smallest county in Texas), which is located about 15 miles northeast of the downtown Dallas area. I found that Marina, who remarried a man by the name of Porter, had been living in some nondescript housing somewhere right in Rockwall for the last fifty years. I also discovered that the media, in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, had descended upon the Porter homestead and had secretly filmed Marina and her husband shopping at our local Wal-Mart. I wondered how many times my wife and I may have walked past this woman while in that same store. Anyway, "Parkland" is now available at Redbox and I would suggest that everyone watch it. It offers up some different insight into "four days of infamy." Thumbs up. My Rating: 3 of 5 Wal-Mart Shoppers. |
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