Oliver Stone "JFK"
...ory follows the process and the eventual case that Jim Garrison builds against certain government officials in the assassination of JFK. He uncovers the faults in the records of the death, and tells the public and media of his findings. He figures out how impossible is was for Oswald to kill the president and formulates his theory on more than one killer. He then plots how in order for everything to work out the way it did, the person who instigated the tragedy must have an immense amount of power and influence to cover everything up. Indeed, the media plays an impartial bystander that is influenced by anything it is told. At first, the media is pro Garrisson’s case, yet when molded by the “higher powers” that he is just trying to cause trouble, the media turns against him and tries to ruin his reputation. In the end, one of the last and most impressionable images is the simple words written on the screen saying “What is past is prologue”. What an interesting idea that history repeats itself and no matter how long ago an incident occurs, it has a definite impact on everything that follows. This film is a social documentary in every right. It states the facts that occurred at that time and even though embellishes in the dialogue, it is mainly based in truth. It responds to the need to educate the public on the mass idea of political democracy. As Nelmes’s An Introduction to Film Studies states, “the documentary is constructed and may be seen not as ...