If you know someone who graduated high school in the last 10 years, they don’t remember the Kennedys. They don’t remember what John Kennedy did to this country. They don’t remember what it was like having someone with such popular persuasion in the White House. Despite what the radical left tells people around my age, President Obama doesn’t have the charisma or the oratory skills that JFK is touted to have had. But no one my age could know that for sure without study. We’re told that Michelle Obama, who considers it chic to wear misfitted, neon-colored capris to Presidential events, is as enamoring and elegant as Jackie Kennedy. We’re told that President Kennedy was one of the great President of the 20th century. And “The Kennedys” almost wasn’t released because the institutional left and the Kennedys themselves didn’t want a picture to be painted that could possibly show otherwise.
The series demonstrates an exquisite attention to detail. The costuming is flawless and the cinematography fits with the era being portrayed. The casting and delivery not only makes the characters believable, but very enjoyable to watch. The two hour premiere shows glimpses of the road to President Kennedy being elected and gives some of the background stories from “Jack” and Joe’s childhood. As a person who currently has a close loved one deployed overseas in the War on Terror, watching any scene where a family is told about the death of a loved one lost in war is difficult. The atmosphere that was generated in the scene where the Kennedys are told of their oldest son’s death was so thick you could taste it, and the score was perfectly aligned with the all of the emotion of the moment.
While watching “The Kennedys,” it was easy for me to slip into the mode that I was watching an entertaining historical documentary. Seeing how this mini-series portrayed Joe Kennedy, the older brother who tragically died in WWII, as a man who was driven to become President, I believed it was true. For a moment, I believed that HE was truly the one that was supposed to run for President, when in fact, I personally don’t know that at all. I never studied the Kennedys in any depth. The left is always trying to shove them down my throat so I want little to do with them even though they were iconic characters in American history. But watching “The Kennedys,” seeing how easily my perception could be altered about them (in conjunction with the reviews of this series from here at Big Hollywood and Rush Limbaugh), it occurred to me that one day my children could watch a miniseries called “The Bushes” (doesn’t have quite the same ring to it).
The left is already trying to portray (in academic institutions and through Howard Zinn mocumentaries on the History Channel) Reagan as the man who ruined the economy and who didn’t end the Cold War (though, the left rarely has an answer for who did). They have already succeeded in skipping over H. W. Bush’s entire Presidency so we can get to the glorious days of Bill Clinton. President Clinton who, as of now, is the most embarrassing President in recent American history (and yes, I’m including Nixon). And we can already see how the left is desperate to re-write history with George BusHitler.
Movies will be made about the times we are living in (and have lived in), but are we going to leave it to the Hollywood-left to make them unchallenged? We can’t ignore that culture determines how history is written. It shouldn’t be 40 years before a fair portrayal of the Bushes is shown to the world. “The Kennedys” and the story of its’ making are a great reminder of the culture war we fight daily against the institutional, Hollywood-left.
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