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Strong and Moving!

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

As part of the commemoration of JFKs 50th death anniversary, this documentary was broadcast last night and, I have to say, I thought it was an interesting take on the whole Kennedy/Camelot myth.The two other reviews you see here are both negative, which only highlights the bias of the reviewers and the almost god-like status the Kennedy's have achieved over the years.The documentary is narrated from the point of view of one of the nannies of Bobby's children, and, in that sense alone, gives the viewer a unique perspective never before discussed - an insider's view debunking the whole myth of the idyllic fairy tale perfect family of Hyannis Port reunions and backyard football games the media had us all believe.Many people will consider this film a blasphemy to the memory of the Kennedys, America's first and only "royal" family. I think this film gives the viewer a rare glimpse of what it must have been like to grow up a Kennedy, regardless of the bias of the narrator.

The narration was so irritating that I could hardly watch the whole documentary to the end. The fantastic clippings from public and private films was the only reason to get through it. What a pity that one can write such trash today without getting sued! My impression is that this was a desperate rewriting of history to exonerate oneself from one's own short coming, the short coming of an incompetent hired child caretaker! There was so much condemnation and hate in this narration that it completely over shadowed the tragedy of the K family. Probably one of Bobby and Ethel's biggest mistakes was not to fire a person with such an inferiority complex, if such a person actually existed. If this person never existed, then this so called documentary is just malicious fantasy.

Images are well chosen, you get to know some things that aren't obvious but the general feeling one gets while watching this "documentary" is how easy is to speak evil of a famous family. The narrator's beautiful voice relentlessly pounds the myth, their honesty, of course their morale, family values, creating a new myth, the "doomed" for tragedy.The links of the Kennedys with the Mafia suggest a plausible if trite explanation for the two murdered brothers and Oswald. It's interesting in its scope, spanning about half a century, including pop music, fashion and ways of having fun.Constantly ranting about how the K. didn't care enough for their family , being hypocritical and hiding skeletons in the closet, this "docuficiton" looses credibility by their lack of subtlety and objectivity. They don't even try. With a penchant for high sounding phrases like "black masses and drugs, everything was better than the banality of their destiny". It is true there are lots of tragic facts in their biography, but blaming all on Bob not being there enough as a father is simply outrageous. The end verges on melodrama, just what the authors probably would have sneered at in American movies. Bobby, Joseph, Rosemary, Kathleen, and the two nephews, they all had their troubles, and this documentary gloats over it. Even if their grandpa were a gangster and Jackie went to bed with Bobby, I don't see why that would make the clan "doomed", as this piece of fiction suggests all the time. This thesis is so ludicrous is's almost funny, if we weren't talking about real people.