President Kennedy, far and away my favorite U. S. President, is put under a virtual microscope in this extremely academic and erudite documentary.
Its Focus: To scrutinize every existing scrap of public record/information regarding Kennedy's propensity, or lack thereof, to involve the United States in a land war in Southeast Asia; specifically Vietnam.
Interesting and thought provoking? YES!... Entertaining? Not intended to be, in the slightest! VIRTUAL JFK was totally successful in achieving this apparent intention. As an Orlando Film Festival entry in the Documentary category, I don't think anyone was expecting anything even remotely reminiscent of Oliver Stone's JFK. Yet, one has to ask oneself...Just who in the hell were they making this film for?
Despite an extremely keen interest in both Kennedy and everything related to the Vietnam "Conflict", I found the endless drilling the journalists engaged in on certain topics to be numbing... Putting me into a near hypnotic state; whereby I sometimes would lose focus on the long back and forth conversation string!
All in all, VIRTUAL JFK makes its case rather well: That Kennedy would have undoubtedly taken a very different course in Vietnam, had he continued in office, and on to almost certain re-election; One that in the end would have totally altered both our own history and the HISTORY of the world!
EBJOY! / DISFRUTELA!
Its Focus: To scrutinize every existing scrap of public record/information regarding Kennedy's propensity, or lack thereof, to involve the United States in a land war in Southeast Asia; specifically Vietnam.
Interesting and thought provoking? YES!... Entertaining? Not intended to be, in the slightest! VIRTUAL JFK was totally successful in achieving this apparent intention. As an Orlando Film Festival entry in the Documentary category, I don't think anyone was expecting anything even remotely reminiscent of Oliver Stone's JFK. Yet, one has to ask oneself...Just who in the hell were they making this film for?
Despite an extremely keen interest in both Kennedy and everything related to the Vietnam "Conflict", I found the endless drilling the journalists engaged in on certain topics to be numbing... Putting me into a near hypnotic state; whereby I sometimes would lose focus on the long back and forth conversation string!
All in all, VIRTUAL JFK makes its case rather well: That Kennedy would have undoubtedly taken a very different course in Vietnam, had he continued in office, and on to almost certain re-election; One that in the end would have totally altered both our own history and the HISTORY of the world!
EBJOY! / DISFRUTELA!