We went seeking greatness in movies, and were most often disappointed. We waited for a movie like the one we wanted to make, and secretly wanted to live. -Roger Ebert paraphrasing a quote from Masculin Feminin
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Bobby
I'm not really sure what the point of Bobby was other than a venue to make people sit through some RFK speeches. The plot follows the lives of way too many people through the course of the day leading up to RFK's assassination by Sirhan Sirhan. There are former employees, current employees, campaign members and even a Czech reporter. It was sickeningly a big poster board for liberal idealism. I get that Bobby Kennedy was considered a great hope. I get that he had a lot of good ideas. I don't need to be beaten over the head with it. But that is all Emilio Estevez seems able to do. This felt like a big Hollywood love letter to RFK. It served no other dramatic purpose.
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