Jackie
Natalie Portman portrays the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie. It was a film about the first lady in the months after the assassination of the President, her husband, in Dallas. It is an account of the widow making her husband’s legacy mythic. It is a story too sad a tragedy.
As I watched it, I felt for America. Not because of the Kennedy assassination, but because of Trump. The film portrays the institution of the White House and the Presidency with reverence. It builds it up as an American myth. It is ours as Americans because we can be so much better than our selves can be. That’s what she said they strived for. Now we’ve got Trump and a First Lady that can not barely match the majesty of the past First Ladies. We are ridiculous for electing them.
3 of 5 stars.
