12-10-2013, 03:05 AM
'Parkland' a tacky restaging of JFK assassination | Film and movie critiques from CTV News;
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'Parkland' a tacky restaging of JFK assassination | Film and movie critiques from CTV News
Published Friday, October 4, 2013 9:31AM EDT
A painful retelling of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President Kennedy in which the two least important players seem to be JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald, "Parkland" dramatizes the immediate impact of that tragedy on the lives of civilians, professionals and others tangentially involved. Comparisons with "Bobby" can't be helped, since it took a similar approach to the equally shocking death of Robert F. Kennedy, though that film seems like a masterpiece compared with this inadvertently tacky restaging of events. Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, this film will swiftly be forgotten in the face of more tasteful mementos
http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/movi...-1.1483256
'Parkland' a tacky restaging of JFK assassination | Film and movie critiques from CTV News
Published Friday, October 4, 2013 9:31AM EDT
A painful retelling of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President Kennedy in which the two least important players seem to be JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald, "Parkland" dramatizes the immediate impact of that tragedy on the lives of civilians, professionals and others tangentially involved. Comparisons with "Bobby" can't be helped, since it took a similar approach to the equally shocking death of Robert F. Kennedy, though that film seems like a masterpiece compared with this inadvertently tacky restaging of events. Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, this film will swiftly be forgotten in the face of more tasteful mementos