JFK - Truth Is Never Out There.

 (1991) ★★★★★

JFK is the only Oliver Stone's film that still lingers in my mind. Platoon? The Vietnam War, soulless souls go bang-bang-boom without realizing how messed up they are, pretty boring stuff, don't you think? Born On The Fourth Of July? Tom Cruise, a war-torn vet in a wheelchair? Favorable for the Oscar, but honestly, would you like to see something like that? Stone, however, won the Academy Awards for Directing those two. Well, what can I say? The Americans still can't let go of it, can they? Alright, enough of bullshit. Let's talk about JFK then.

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He was assassinated two years after he took the office. According to the autopsy, half his brain was blown off by a lunatic, named Lee Harvey Oswald, with a three-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle. He fired 3 shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. And one of the bullets, known as the Magic Bullet, "passed through President Kennedy's neck and Governor Connally's chest and wrist and embedded itself in the Governor's thigh. It traversed 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed 4 inches of rib, and shattered a radius bone. The bullet that is supposed to have done all this damage was found on a stretcher in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, after the assassination." If there was such a bullet in this world, the assassination of JFK was by no means a conspiracy. Otherwise, the truth, as you might've guessed, would be pretty ugly.

Well, I guess it doesn't really matter who killed JFK, or how, or why. What matters is whether you believe there's such a thing as truth. A lie can become the truth when it's welcomed by the majority. The truth can also turn into a lie when it's too inconvenient. So believe it or not, the truth only exists when it's necessary and favorable. Get it?