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JFK (1991)
Why not?
This is my second favorite movie right next to "The Green Mile". Oliver Stone and Jim Garrison fought for what they thought was justice and Stone made a great movie about it. The beginning is one of the best in cinematic history.
Don't take every word of the movie for fact, of course (O'Keefe and Mr.X are composite characters, final speech never happened, Camp street/Lafayette street thing also not above doubt). But as far as theories about the Kennedy assassination go, it's the one that I think makes the most sense.
The guys who (according to Stone) killed Kennedy will never be tried. They are;
1; Probably dead by now.
2; Probably above the law.
Stone condemned them in front of History, which is all we can do.
Why couldn't Kennedy have been killed by a conspiracy? Why not? Ever read Machiavelli? They are no ethics in politics. We hold as fact that Julius Caesar (along with a whole bunch of roman emperors) died as a result of political intrigue. Catherine the Great murdered her own husband to get power. Her grandson Alexander the first murdered his own father and Peter the Great killed his own son. Archeologists now think king Tut and Raamses III might have been murdered by members of their court. Not even the popes and Tibetan monks were above that sort of thing! Why couldn't it happen in 1960's United States? Democracy? I'm sorry to say this, but the only difference between democracy and dictature in that matter is how many people you have to fool in order to gain power. The difference is that this time, we're the ones being fooled, pretty hard to consider! We tend to have blind faith in our government (whatever country is the one we call ours). If they don't protect us (especially in war time or in a tensed international situation), who will? Stone's great merit was to make us doubt. Remind us to never leave our brains at the door. At the end of his monologue, Costner seems to break the fourth wall and speak to us as he says: "It's up to you".
In the end, I say everyone has the right to disagree with me, Stone or with any other "fried conspiracy theorists" (that, by the way, are also citizens, even the ones believing in UFO stuff) but those who compare this movie to "Birth of a Nation" (a movie that pratically resurrected the KKK) or to Riefenstal's work show extremely bad taste, underestimate the negative impact those movies had and are insulting more their own intelligence than Stone's work.
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981)
You don't want to watch this with the lights off
I watched that movie soon after 9/11 and everyone saw Bin Laden as the Muslim warlord.
It is old, let's face it, but it predicted an earthquake in San Francisco around 1988, something wrong when the Halley comet ran by in April 1986 (Chernobyl disaster) and an attack on New-York by Muslims but the movie aid it was going to be a nuclear attack. It also predicts natural catastrophes (Tsunami? Hurricane Katrina? El Nino?) around the time of a conflict between America and the Muslim world. It's not a hundred percent precise but as far as interpretations of Nostradamus' predictions go, it is the most accurate I found.
But you really don't want to watch that with the lights off. The horror of the Nazi camps so well described and the future it predicts is so grim and yet close to the truth that it's quite scary.
Flodder (1986)
People here think that movie was made in Quebec!
...and I thought the only things I knew about the Low Countries were wooden shoes, tulips, windmills and Rembrandt. For the first eighteen years of my life, I thought that movie was made in Quebec. I was not the only one, though. In Canadian french, that movie and its two sequels were named "Les Lavigueurs Déménagent" ( The Lavigueurs are moving) after a poor Montreal family that won the lottery jackpot a few months before. They were already the laughing stock of the province, then people started to think that movie was really about them! The promoters thought they'd make a bunch of money out of what was "Flavor of the month" back then, not really smart, not really kind either. The movie showed the Lavigueurs (Floodders) as ill-mannered, horny 24-7 (even incestuous!) hillbillies but if you ask me the real ill-mannered hillbillies without any class were the Quebec promoters for making money by covering other people's reputation in dirt.
On top of that, the movie was one of the first foreign movies to be translated in joual (Quebec working-class slang) instead of the usual standard French and in the sequel, the family is said (still only in the Quebec version) to be from Saguenay. Two more reasons for francophone viewers to think the movie is as quebecer as poutine and vachon cakes.
The movie itself is still hilariously politically non-correct. No matter what greedy promoters did here, it kicks butt all over the world!