Natalie Portman as Jacqueline, in a series of reactions after her husband, President Kennedy, was shot dead.
When Kennedy was shot, the skull was knocked off the back of the car. Jacqueline sat next to Kennedy. After being stunned for a while, she saw the skull on the rear hood. She crawled over to pick it up subconsciously, and held it in her hand until it was handed over to the doctor.
After that, the Vice President held an inauguration on the plane without waiting for President Kennedy's body to return home. The crowd gathered around the new president, and no one paid any attention to the blood on her dress, and she had been embraced by everyone in the center of the crowd before.
Back in the United States, she and her two children were given a deadline to leave the White House because the new first lady was moving in.
Jacqueline did not want her husband to die so silently. She endured all the grief and organized her husband's funeral in person. She opposed the request of Kennedy's mother to bury Kennedy in the family cemetery. She did everything forcefully, calmly, methodically, without being overwhelmed by pain, to get the most pompous treatment for her husband. Two years after the death of his presidential husband, she disregarded the ban at the time and found a newspaper reporter herself, borrowing a household song to set the late president as a spiritual model.
After everything was over, she went to the pastor to tell her that she was fighting for herself, not just her husband. When her presidential husband brought her into the White House, she rearranged the White House, invited a well-known band to give a concert in the White House, and invited a TV station to visit the White House. She didn't want to, she must have a beginning and an end, hold the funeral of the president's husband to the world's onlookers, and give herself a "brilliant" ending. She's the type of mentality that once loss comes, she's going to get as much back as she can from it.
Not everyone can have a splendid ending with sloppy cards after a splendid beginning. Ordinary people would have already collapsed when they encountered this. She didn't. Her heart and willpower are top-notch, but it's just hidden under the female body.
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