{"id":296798,"date":"2021-07-12T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T13:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass-review-stone-doubles-down\/"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T13:58:18","slug":"watch-jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass-review-stone-doubles-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass-review-stone-doubles-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass&#8217; Review: Stone Doubles Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9d1276bf3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9d1276bf3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass-review-stone-doubles-down\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98JFK_Revisited_Through_the_Looking_Glass_Review_Stone_Doubles_Down%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass&#8217; Review: Stone Doubles Down&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass-review-stone-doubles-down\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98JFK_Revisited_Through_the_Looking_Glass_Review_Stone_Doubles_Down%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass&#8217; Review: Stone Doubles Down&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98JFK_Revisited_Through_the_Looking_Glass_Review_Stone_Doubles_Down%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass&#8217; Review: Stone Doubles Down&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98JFK_Revisited_Through_the_Looking_Glass_Review_Stone_Doubles_Down%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass&#8217; Review: Stone Doubles Down&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201cJFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass\u201d lives up to its title. Directed by Oliver Stone, it\u2019s a kind of documentary companion-piece sequel to \u201cJFK,\u201d and yes, it takes you through the looking glass again. There are moments when it gives you that heady, tingling, oh-my-God-I-have-seen-the-truth-that-was-hidden! sensation of revelatory immersion, the kind that hits you when you\u2019re confronted with an autopsy photo in which a wound is said to have mysteriously dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared, or when you\u2019re staring at a declassified page from the Warren Commission Report in which Gerald Ford, with a few penciled-in words, literally shifts by six inches the place where the first bullet entered JFK. At moments like that, you feel the <em>frisson<\/em> of the junkie-hit injections that conspiracy theory is built upon. They\u2019re the moments you can feel yourself slipping through the looking glass, or down the rabbit hole, or wherever else it is that you feel more alive than you did the moment before, because you\u2019ve now glimpsed where The Forbidden Truth resides.<\/p>\n<p>Does \u201cJFK Revisited\u201d present a smoking gun? No, it doesn\u2019t. It says that Lee Harvey Oswald\u2019s rifle <em>wasn\u2019t<\/em> a smoking gun \u2014 and claims that he wasn\u2019t even in the Texas School Book Depository. (Chew on that one for a while.) Yet the film, in another way, presents almost every moment as a smoking gun. In the 30 years since \u201cJFK\u201d was released, Stone has never let go of the belief that there\u2019s a hidden history of things, one that the official history is designed to cover up. If anything, he\u2019s only expanded that belief (it\u2019s the premise of his fascinating 12-part documentary \u201cThe Untold History of the United States,\u201d released on Showtime in 2012).<\/p>\n<p>We used to call it \u201cconspiracy theory,\u201d and that\u2019s still a good phrase for it, but to the increasingly vast number of Americans who now live inside it, it is neither conspiracy nor theory; it is simply reality. In \u201cThrough the Looking Glass,\u201d Stone, after presenting two hours\u2019 worth of evidence about the JFK assassination, refers to what he has shown us as \u201cconspiracy fact,\u201d as if he had finally blown the hinges off the Oswald lone-gunman scenario. His words are meant to be a rebuke to all those who have written him off over the years as a brilliant but frothing information-age political fantasist.<\/p>\n<p>The JFK assassination launched the Age of Conspiracy, and many conspiracies followed \u2014 Paul is Dead, the fake moon landing, the cover-up of alien abductions, the murder of Princess Diana, 9\/11 as inside job. That a good portion of the American public now thinks Joe Biden stole the election, and that QAnon is something other than organized <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> psychosis, shows you just how far through the looking glass we\u2019ve gone.<\/p>\n<p>But in the continuum of conspiracy theory that has escalated for 60 years, there\u2019s no doubt that \u201cJFK,\u201d Stone\u2019s blacks-ops puzzle of a true-life political thriller, gave a seismic boost of legitimacy to the metaphysic of conspiracy theory. Released in 1991, the film had an ominous dazzle. It sucked you into the vortex and was taken as deadly seriously as it deserved to be. It reopened the case in the American imagination, to the point that Congress, in 1992, passed the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, declassifying half a million documents that had emerged from the findings of the House Select Committee on Assassination in 1976. Those documents were supposed to have remained sealed until 2029, but \u201cJFK\u201d undid that deadline. And \u201cThrough the Looking Glass\u201d is built on information contained in them. In other words, it\u2019s based on the U.S. government\u2019s own record of the JFK assassination, and Stone\u2019s interpretation of it.<\/p>\n<p>After \u201cJFK,\u201d I came back through the looking glass myself. Up until then, I\u2019d always believed that there was <em>some<\/em> kind of conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, and that belief was only heightened by the poetic power of \u201cJFK.\u201d But as I was moved to consume more about the assassination than I ever had before, and to confront new evidence and analysis like the kind presented in Gerald Posner\u2019s 1993 book \u201cCase Closed\u201d or Robert Stone\u2019s mind-opening 2007 documentary \u201cOswald\u2019s Ghost,\u201d I began to swing back to the lone-gunman version of events, and to see it, in an odd way, as the ultimate looking-glass scenario: the one that now completely challenged our sense of reality. (How could one small sick man like Lee Harvey Oswald commit an act so horrifically monumental? That\u2019s the real vortex.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass\u201d isn\u2019t a dizzying docu-dream, like \u201cJFK.\u201d It\u2019s rooted in minutiae, gray testimony, concrete information. It doesn\u2019t play like a delirious crackpot riff \u2014 rather, it\u2019s made in a somber just-the-facts-ma\u2019am style, though one that isn\u2019t too far removed from the reality-as-suspense-film vibe you get on shows like \u201cUnsolved Mysteries\u201d or \u201cForensic Files.\u201d The opening fanfare includes a 1963 clip of a man with a crewcut saying \u201cthe shot came from the hill\u201d (i.e., the grassy knoll). Apart from that, it\u2019s a standard Dealey-Plaza-and-Parkland-and-Cronkite-and-Jackie-and-LBJ-and-Jack-Ruby-and-the-Warren-Commission montage, with tumultuous Phillip Glassy music heightening the history. But once the film settles into its presentation of documents, forensic evidence, and talking heads, that soundtrack music is giving you a message, caressing each moment into a turbulent paranoia that says, \u201cThere\u2019s a reason what you\u2019re seeing is disturbing. It\u2019s real.\u201d If the music were s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped away, the film\u2019s effect would be less insistent, and it says something that a filmmaker as serious as Stone feels the need to pump it all up.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThrough the Looking Glass,\u201d Stone expands on the story, and the theories, we already know, from what he claims is the farfetched quality of the so-called magic-bullet theory to the bullet\u2019s chain of custody to the film\u2019s contention that JFK\u2019s corpse was whisked out of Dallas so that civilian physicians couldn\u2019t determine that he was shot by more than one gunman. Stone devotes a lot of time to the Oswald saga, as voluminously as it\u2019s already been covered. He shows us the images of Oswald in his backyard, holding up the 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano infantry rifle that was found, along with three shell casings, on the sixth floor of the book depository. Stone directs our attention to contradictory versions of where the rifle strap was supposedly attached (on the side or the back?), and in two different photos he shows us Oswald with his wedding ring on two different hands. This is supposed to suggest that the photos were faked. (But if they were going to be faked with <em>this<\/em> level of pre-Photoshop expertise, why didn\u2019t the fakers notice the wedding ring?)<\/p>\n<p>One of the film\u2019s two narrators, Whoopi Goldberg, tells us that there\u2019s \u201cpowerful evidence that Oswald was not on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting.\u201d The movie fills this in by going into the records to explore the testimony of Vickie Adams, who knew Oswald from the book depository. After Adams and her friend heard shots being fired, they ran down the back stairs to see what was happening. Since Oswald, according to the official story, made his escape by going down those same back stairs, the film treats it as a seismic revelation that they never saw him. He must not have been there!<\/p>\n<p>But might not Oswald have heard them and hung back for 10 seconds? Why does <em>this<\/em> idea \u2014 that the two women never saw Oswald \u2014 prove anything? (Oh, but the wedding ring!) The movie, in what some will take to be a powerful piece of evidence, uses the declassified documents to show us that the Warren Commission actually altered the timing of the two women\u2019s departure so that it would line up with the idea of Oswald-as-the-lone-gunman. This leads the film into one of the murkier realities of the JFK assassination: that the Warren Commission may well have tampered with certain evidence. Not everything lined up, and they connected the dots, coloring in some dots where they had none. Is that a scandal, a political outrage? Yes and yes. But does it, in fact, mean that the Oswald-as-lone-gunman scenario was all made up?<\/p>\n<p>Stone\u2019s grand thesis is that JFK was assassinated by the CIA. He presents a whole vast rationale for why the CIA would have done this, one that expands on the JFK-wanted-to-pull-out-of-Vietnam scenario presented at the end of \u201cJFK.\u201d According to the documentary, JFK wanted to mend fences, bring a progressive vision to the world, make friends out of nations and forces that the CIA preferred to preserve as enemies; he wanted to neuter the CIA itself. There\u2019s no question that the CIA, by the early \u201960s, was a rogue organization that helped to carry out assassinations and was responsible for other scurrilous actions. This is not <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>. So it isn\u2019t hard to make the Agency sound like ominous culprits, and to make the Director of Central Intelligence, Allen Dulles (who was fired by JFK over the Bay of Pigs fiasco), into a sinister schemer, because that\u2019s what he was. His very presence on the Warren Commission is treated by the movie as a scandal, and maybe that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the theory that the CIA assassinated Kennedy remains, in \u201cThrough the Looking Glass,\u201d an ominous abstraction supported by random wisps of \u201ccircumstantial evidence.\u201d Goldberg, in the narration, says of Oswald, \u201cThe underlying mystery remains: Why would anyone use a rifle in an assassination knowing there was a paper trail that would lead right back to them?\u201d Is that so hard to fathom? Oswald bought his rifle through a mail-order catalogue under a fake name. Seven months before the JFK assassination, he used that same rifle to try and assassinate the retired U.S. Major <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Edwin Walker by shooting into his home. \u201cThrough the Looking Glass\u201d holds a magnifying glass up to certain inconsistencies in the evidence that will probably never be resolved, but the movie also takes wild swings. Why would Oswald have left a paper trail? Because he never expected to be caught. And because he was a sick puppy who was mentally ill enough to want to shoot the president.<\/p>\n<p>When Stone gets into the most intense section of evidence, the details of bullet trajectories and what happened to the president\u2019s brain, you listen with a kind of mesmerized numbness, riding along, for a while, with what the film is claiming. It says that the brain photographs in the National Archives are not, in fact, photos of JFK\u2019s brain \u2014\u00a0that another brain was swapped in for a second (bogus) set of photos. A number of witnesses, almost all of whose testimony is reported to us as hearsay, are said to have claimed that they saw a gaping hole in the back of Kennedy\u2019s head, an occipital wound suggesting that he\u2019d been shot from the front. Dr. Malcolm Perry, who performed the tracheotomy on Kennedy, claimed at the time that the hole in Kennedy\u2019s throat was an entrance wound. Then he changed his story.<\/p>\n<p>This is a movie review, not a forensic dossier, but here\u2019s my honest response to all that. The evidentiary climax of \u201cJFK\u201d takes place in court, where Kevin Costner\u2019s Jim Garrison shows the Zapruder film and tells the jury that the bullet that split Kennedy\u2019s head open sent his head \u201cback and to the left.\u201d That infamous movement was long ago dissected by ballistics experts, but the point is this: Stone, in the end, was willing to draw cosmic conclusions by <em>looking<\/em> at the Zapruder film.<\/p>\n<p>Well, when I look at the Zapruder film, what my eyes see, at that horrific moment, is that the back of JFK\u2019s head is intact. There is no occipital wound. The bullet tore through the side of his head. And if you watch his hands up at his throat just beforehand and watch Texas Gov. John Connally\u2019s movements, the timing and flow of the magic-bullet theory line up perfectly. (Speaking of the throat wound, if it was, as the documentary claims, an entrance wound, caused by a bullet coming from the grassy knoll, wouldn\u2019t that bullet have ripped through the <em>side<\/em> of Kennedy\u2019s neck?)<\/p>\n<p>But I have one more question. Near the end, referring to the moment that became the most cataclysmic of the 20th century, Stone says that the president was killed in a \u201ccrossfire.\u201d But how could there have been a crossfire if Oswald wasn\u2019t even in the book depository? Was there <em>another<\/em> shooter in the book depository using Oswald\u2019s rifle? Was there a shooter across the street? The film barely even explains its theory. Talk about skimping on details! 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