Maybe Go
Usually I don’t notice the soundtrack to a movie. However this time it is a funeral dirge played too loud throughout the movie and is quite depressing. An average score plods along without you noticing it, a great one is capable of producing goose bumps and being forever linked in your memory with the film itself. This one was a complete failure that time after time pulled me out of the movie and made it difficult to concentrate on what was going on.
There are two different movies going on here. Millennials watching this picture will by far hail it as a masterful Oscar contender, in particular noting the performance of Natalie Portman. However if you’re a baby boomer like myself who was aware of the events as they unfolded on November 22nd, 1963, the movie, dare I say it, is almost a sinful revision of history. One glaring omission is during the final leg of the funeral procession with the caisson carrying the casket of the president, young John-John saluted and brought a grief stricken nation to tears with his innocence.