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In trying to keep up with all the potential "Oscar bait" at the box office this year, I went to see the first-lady-focused film Jackie just before New Years. Natalie Portman is stellar in the title role and deserves every awards she wins. The film is an engrossing mix of real footage, historical recreation, and imaginative license in exploring Jackie's grief in the days just after the JFK assassination. Organized around a media interview set up to "manage" her husband's legacy in the wake of his assassination, the film jumps around non-linearly from the interview, to the shooting, to life in the White House, to funeral preparations, and other moments in the mind and memory of the grieving widow. The time-hopping combined with the atonal score places the viewer in the off-kilter mindset of a person coping with tragedy. Avoiding spoilers, I will not comment on any further specifics of the plot but will say Jackie does important work raising questions of how legacies are created, news reported, and history remembered. It's worth viewing if it happens to be playing in your area.
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