One spring morning, I woke up very early. It's not dawn outside. Lazily didn't want to get up, so I just watched the movie "Assassination of Kennedy" (JFK) that couldn't resist the drowsiness at the beginning of the night.
Two discs, for nearly three hours, when the end caption appeared, I realized that it was already dawn, there were birds calling outside, and tears were dripping on my face.
On November 22, 1963, on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, US President Kennedy sitting in a convertible was hit by a bullet and died. Two hours later, a suspect named Oswald was arrested. Twelve hours later, Oswald was shot and killed in full view. A few months later, the Warren Committee, an investigative agency designated by the government and the House, confirmed Oswald as the sole murderer. The case was closed.
But the death of Dallas District Attorney Jim Gary discovered an astonishing conspiracy in his own investigation.
He is lonely. He is alone against the government and consortium representing the country, against the most powerful and richest people in the United States. There is no back-up, no comrades in arms, the enemy is omnipresent and invisible, and witnesses die strangely.
But he still set aside his sword like a swordsman and sued one of the participants in the assassination conspiracy. He is the only swordsman in the United States to make moves.
He said in the court that truth is our most important value, because this is our country, and a patriot must always be ready to defend his country and oppose the government.
The 30-minute court statement of Kevin Costner, who plays the prosecutor, may be one of the most classic monologues in the history of film, but it touched me and my dry eyes.
This makes me ashamed and happy. To shed tears is not something to boast about. For my age, it is far better to have a sense of maturity than to be rich in feelings. I am a little ashamed because I don't know if I am very hypocritical. I am happy because I still have tears to shed. For a person's actions, for his courage to pursue the facts and truths, my heart is not numb, it is alive and can still be moved.
The assassination of Kennedy was the most terrifying moment in American history. The old values and belief in democracy that Americans are proud of began to collapse. It announced the end of an era together with the Vietnam War and the Watergate incident.
The film director Oliver Stone was born in 1946 and participated in the Vietnam War in 1967. I don’t know what kind of image the above incident left in the hearts of young Stone, which prompted him to persevere in searching for the truth in each of his films, "Field Platoon" (Vietnam War) in 1986, and "Born in July in 1989." "Moon 4th" (Vietnam War), "Assassination of Kennedy" in 1991, "Nixon" in 1995... How many past truths are lost in the long river of time, and the history we are familiar with is told by others.
But there are always people with a sense of justice and conscience who stand up.
In 1998, 35 years after Kennedy's assassination, Madeleine, the mistress of Lyndon Johnson, who served as vice president and took over as president two hours after Kennedy's death, disclosed in the French "Le Figaro" magazine that the assassination of Kennedy was Texas. The oil tycoon paid the money, Johnson specifically planned and directed the big conspiracy behind the scenes. He used his power to cover up the truth. This is consistent with the findings of the prosecutor Garrison in the film.
To this day, the U.S. government has not reinvestigated the case, and the truth is still concealed.
In court, the prosecutor Garrison said that when we were young, we thought that justice came naturally, that righteousness must triumph over evil. Only when we are older we know that it is not. Adhering to justice is not easy, because truth often threatens powerful people. , We have to take great risks.
He lost the lawsuit. He was said to be a clown seeking political capital. People did not believe him. The files about the incident were kept secret by the government in the name of national security.
But this lonely swordsman still did not put down the sword in his hand-facing the judge, the jury, the people in the audience, the conspirator.
"The government's files will not be lifted until 75 years later. I am over 40 and I was in the grave at that time. But I want my 8-year-old son to stay healthy and look through the information in the early morning of September 2038. Maybe. They will also think of excuses to postpone the time, maybe this matter can only become a legend for generations. But one day the truth will come to light."
He said, I will not resign, even if it takes 30 years to expose an assassin, I Will continue for thirty years.
The ending caption reads: This film is dedicated to young people who continue to pursue the truth.
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