Bobby

Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Christian Slater, Lawrence Fishburne, Shia LaBeouf, Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Heather Graham, Ashton Kutcher.... quite the cast.

I saw this movie with my sisters last night. I recommend it. It was not a historical drama like I expected (and hoped) it would be. It's more of a multiple plotline story set against the backdrop of the assassination night of Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and candidate for the presidency in 1968. The movie itself did not present much of Kennedy's life or work, although anytime it was done by showing newsreels or by using excerpts of his speeches as narration, it was very well-done and inspiring.

RFK seemed to be, in what little I saw, to be a true idealist. It was said that some African-Americans at the time were hanging a picture of Bobby in their respective homes. He spoke against apartheid while visiting South Africa. He ran for the presidency with plans for an honourable withdrawal from Vietnam. I plan to do some reading on his work and life, that was tragically cut short by a Palestinian assassin. (though it has been widely speculated that the conspiracy was much deeper and darker)

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." June 6th, 1968, RFK's last speech