Friday, July 6, 2007
Bobby - Robert F 'Bobby' Kennedy
In this totally fictional story written and directed by Estevez, Bobby takes us back to the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. It’s the day of the California Democratic Party Primary, and a win by Kennedy could make his bid to be the party’s presidential nominee a reality. As the day goes on, we see all of the people who are in the hotel and take a look at this small slice of their life.
Though the writer directer will be, and is being, criticised for making fictional characters around a real point in history, the last fifteen minutes of the movie are shocking, moving, amazing filmmaking that sticks with you long after you walk out of the theater. Despite all of the dreck that comes before it, Bobby excels as we see an extremely detailed recreation of the assassination, and closes with a moving end credits sequence that features images of Kennedy throughout the years.
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