02-02-2011, 11:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-02-2011, 04:16 PM by Charles Drago.)
The Package, the 1989 film starring Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones, directed by Andrew Davis, and written by John Bishop, presents as the most profound and illuminating cinematic rendering of 20th century deep political events in general and the JFK assassination in particular (even though the Kennedy hit ostensibly has nothing to do with the film's plot) I've ever experienced.
Hackman plays an Army sargeant assigned to escort the "package" -- military prisoner Jones -- from Europe to D.C.
It turns out that Hackman has unknowingly assisted in the illegal entry into the U.S. of a highly skilled assassin whose mission is to shoot the American president and/or the Soviet chairman at a ... wait for it ... Chicago event where they will celebrate the unprecedented detente which they've brought about.
The high level Facilitators of the plot turn out to be American AND Soviet military and intelligence officers whose own masters, to use George Michael Evica's classic terminology, are "above Cold War differences."
An Oswald/Vallee patsy is set up: sheep dipped as a neo-Nazi sympathizer and given a job in an office that overlooks the podium at which the targets will speak.
Brilliant, tight, deeply aware of deep political matters.
Do NOT miss The Package.
Hackman plays an Army sargeant assigned to escort the "package" -- military prisoner Jones -- from Europe to D.C.
It turns out that Hackman has unknowingly assisted in the illegal entry into the U.S. of a highly skilled assassin whose mission is to shoot the American president and/or the Soviet chairman at a ... wait for it ... Chicago event where they will celebrate the unprecedented detente which they've brought about.
The high level Facilitators of the plot turn out to be American AND Soviet military and intelligence officers whose own masters, to use George Michael Evica's classic terminology, are "above Cold War differences."
An Oswald/Vallee patsy is set up: sheep dipped as a neo-Nazi sympathizer and given a job in an office that overlooks the podium at which the targets will speak.
Brilliant, tight, deeply aware of deep political matters.
Do NOT miss The Package.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene