Review of Parkland (2013) by Marcus E — 05 Oct 2013

I saw this movie yesterday (Saturday 10/5) and liked it. I was born in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas and grew up there (and was 12 years old when these event happened), so I'm willing to forgive some of the shortcomings of this movie. I thought that a number of the actors did an outstanding job, and especially James Badge Dale as Robert Oswald, the older brother of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Here's what I posted on Facebook to my high school friends, who also lived through the events of this movie:

Just saw the movie Parkland today, and although it was both intense and wrenching (almost non-stoip), I'm glad I saw it and think it was very well done. I was relieved that my home turf of Oak Cliff, where Oswald was living at the time, was mentioned but not shown (I don't think that would have been easy, at least for me, to see again.). And some of the dialogue, especially a couple of things said by people in Dallas, was really awful to hear again. But the movie took dialogue from transcripts from those days, so I think it was all acurate as far as possible. I wound up feeling much more saddened for Robert Oswald than I ever thought I would, with his being thrown into the middle of a brother accused of killing the President and also their egotistical and almost deranged mother. But so many of the characters in the movie went through so much, that it was hard not to cry through a number of parts of it. I would recommend the movie but also caution that it's very intense and some parts not pretty at all. And if you lived through that time (like I did), it may bring a lot of it right back to you.