一个总是活在回忆里的酒店老板，一个被妻子发现奸情的酒店经理，一个因为种族歧视被开除的餐饮部主管，2个初尝毒品、讨厌越战的大学生，1个从RFK身上看到国家希望的黑人学生，一个humble的墨西哥服务员，一个酗酒的过气女歌手，一个试图用婚姻挽救未婚夫的女大学生，一对陷入7年之痒的老夫妻。。还有更多，22个，他们是谁呢？一个共同点是他们都于1968年6月6日在Ambassador Hotel目睹了Robert Francis Kennedy遇刺。每个人的生活都在那一天因为这场选举，因为RFK ，因为越战，因为美国，这个selflessness，compassionate的国家，而改变。历史无法像纪录片一样重放重放再重放，纵然你高呼，纵使你咆哮，纵使你哭泣，它就是这么冷冰冰的继续流过你的身边。我们是不是该哀叹个人在历史长河中的渺小，还是该如RFK大声疾呼的那样to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again....
这部电影有太多我们值得记住的地方，看看这些名字吧：Anthony Hopkins；Helen Hunt； William H. Macy；Martin Sheen；Laurence Fishburne； Demi Moore；Sharon Stone；Elijah Wood；Harry Belafonte。。five star cast。记住Helen Hunt揶揄：god has a sense a humor. 记住高大的Laurence Fishburne向矮小的墨西哥服务生弯腰致敬：a chivalrous act，indeed。记住Martin Sheen那双专注诚恳的双眼说：You are now. You and I are more than the stuff, more than the things in our lives. Somewhere between our things and our stuff is us. I don't want to lose us. 记住Hopkins在听到RFK遇刺时的眼神，无力的眼神。。
电影是梦，是自我意识的沉浸和放逐，很少有有电影让人感到这么无力。借用charles dickens：It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....
Suddenly, it all comes to a question to the end: where we are?
让我在那黄金的年代，the sound of slience. 记住RFK说的:
Our lifes in this planet is too short. The work to be done is too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in this land of ours. Of course, we cannot banish it with a program, nor with a resolution, but we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our bothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life, that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment that they can. Surely, this bond of common fate, surely this bond of common goals can begin to teach us something. Surely we can learn at least to look around of those of us, of our fellow man, and surely we can begin to work a little harder, to bind up the wounds among us and to become, in our hearts, brothers and countrymen once again.
影坛巨匠再现悲剧夜
