Compared with the complex and interlocking narratives of "JFK", the clues of this "bobby", which also focuses on faith, are much looser, or there is no clue at all. 95% of the time in this two-hour movie, the director is portraying more than twenty small figures in the hotel where the presidential campaign team resides. Hotel managers who have affair with telephone operators, wifes and hair salon owners who seem to be cheerful but have been suffering from life, restaurant managers who have serious racism tendencies, Mexican and black chefs who have fun in their hardships, dead actresses and broker husbands, Female painters and stockbrokers in Twilight Love, graduates who faked marriages in hotels to escape the Vietnamese military service, and of course, there are young volunteers who are confused and do not know how to support Kennedy in the 1960s in the United States... But behind the little people can They are all big names: Anthony Hopkins, the most valuable and attractive old man among actors in the world; the anti-one in the speed of life and death, the old American drama bone-Dennis Hopper, forever in the old women’s club Topic-Sharon Stone and Demi Moore, but putting these names in a play is not a business that anyone can do.
Going back to the movie itself, putting together many unrelated characters telling stories about ten hours before Kennedy’s assassination brought great difficulties to the director. In addition, with the slight exaggeration of expressionism, Most of the time, the movie is really incomprehensible. If it weren't for the fragmented documentary scenes of Kennedy and JFK interspersed with the appearance of sentient beings, I am afraid that it won't take long for you to see this film as a warm-hearted drama-in fact, in terms of length, it can be viewed as such. But everything changed in the last 20 minutes. Although compared with the best court defense in film history contributed by Kevin Costner in "JFK", the last scene of Kennedy's assassination in Bobby is still slightly immature (after all, Oliver · Stone's skills gained through countless political movies are beyond the reach of ordinary people), but the small burdens hidden in the previous scenes are ignited at the end, allowing the sublimation of emotions to be logical, without any sense of drag. Let the viewers truly feel that the lives of the little people can’t escape the background of the times. Their various unhappiness turned into the smallest and humble instantly after the shots, and all the fighting was at that moment. Turned into invisible. The people who cheered for Kennedy sincerely or feignly or echoed in the past were crying desperately at that moment-because perhaps Kennedy was not a true freedom and democracy fighter, but he was the only thing about faith and ideals left by people in that era. It symbolizes that when he fell, all those who were worried about the unsatisfactory in their lives discovered that the beliefs about freedom, equality, and people’s livelihood that were once believed but forgotten, and those seemingly inappropriate idealisms have always been supported. What they live on. When such a symbol falls, faith also falls. When life loses its pillars, it doesn’t matter if there is pain in trivial matters.
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