Bobby, directed by Emilio Estevez, is a biopic about Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, focusing on the day in June 1968 when he was assassinated. The movie features a lot of film footage from that day, when he won the California presidential preferential primary, and concludes with a montage of photos accompanying Bobby’s equivalent of the Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream” speech. But Bobby is not a documentary. Instead, the film portrays various individuals who played a role in that fateful day, from the hotel manager (played by Anthony Hopkins) to José, a Mexican American waiter (played by Freddy Rodríguez). Among the famous actors in the film are Harry Belafonte, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Hunt, Ashton Kutcher, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, and the director himself. In addition to developing their characters, the dialog recreates the coiffure, dress, lingo, and mood of the mid-1960s. In other words, the déjà vu is political, psychological, and social in content. MH
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