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Jackie [2016] (directed by Pablo Larraín, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim) is a powerful, often heart-rending / gut-wrenching movie about Jacqueline Kennedy scrambling, often, still in shock, simultaneously (1) to simply _get through_ the AWFUL hours / days after following her husband's John F. Kennedy's assassination (his head _exploded_ into her lap ...) and (2) trying to cement her husband's (and her) Legacy, his Time having been cut so tragically Short, before he / she / they would be Forgotten.
If the second concern would seem surprising, the point is made in the film with the still seemingly shell-shocked Jacqueline (played to nobrainer Oscar Nomination levels by Natalie Portman) asking the driver of a limo, still presumably part of the presidential fleet, in the days after the assassination, what he remembered of James A. Garfield and William McKinley, both Presidents, both having been assassinated while being President. The driver, of course, remembered next to nothing of the two, though, yes, he remembered Lincoln. But then Lincoln prosecuted and won the Civil War and Ended Slavery in the United States, what did JFK really accomplish in his three years as President? Perhaps he averted Nuclear War over Berlin / Cuba. Perhaps he oriented the Country's space program toward the Moon. Who could really know? Who could really tell? Who would really remember? Why should we (Viewers) really care?
The last question is perhaps at the heart of the story here: Why should we care? But I think we do, care. We will ALL meet an End one day. How do WE want to be remembered? Certainly, almost none of us will be remembered as JFK (or Jackie) was. But I do believe that most of us would certainly NOT want to just ... disappear.
EXCELLENT, thought provoking film about ... Legacy.
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