kennedy

kara and i watched the movie bobby over the weekend. it's a fictionalized account of the lives of those in the hotel in which robert kennedy was assassinated on the day he was assassinated. i'd read some mixed stuff about the movie but was quite surprised by it, in a mostly positive way. i think it is a well-made film. it achieves what i think its main goal was, which was to raise the big "what if" question. no one in politics now talks the way this guy did. no one is saying the things he said. maybe people are afraid to say such things, because of what happened to him? or has the bar just dropped phenomenally since 1968? i came away from this movie nostalgic for an america from before i was born and more frustrated than ever about where we are now.