Emilio Estevez
Bobby

April 4, 1968

One of the men who undoubtedly left one of the most indelible marks on the hearts of Americans has died: Martin Luther King.

The United States is desperate, looking towards no future, sending their sons to kill each other in Vietnam, for a war they never wanted, they have no more hopes.

And then he arrived: Bob Kennedy, better known as Bobby. He managed to restore in the heart of all Americans a new trust, courage, and desire to continue, to keep dreaming of seeing their children walk hand in hand with a person of color ten years later, just as Someone once dreamed.

As we all know, this great man did not succeed in realizing the Dream, but he finally exposed the realities that presidents until a few years earlier refused to face, covering them with empty promises and skillfully hiding them.

This film does not aim to be a chronicle of history, it seeks to show us how ordinary Americans lived these intense moments of elections where they managed to realize, at least in their own minds, a better future.

Thus it tells us the story of 20 Americans who found themselves for various reasons at the Ambassador Hotel in California, where that fateful night of June 4, 1968, Bobby was to give one of his greatest speeches, but, above all, where the destruction of any resurrected hope would occur.

And here we are transported into the lives of a couple in crisis formed by a celebrity hairdresser (Sharon Stone) and a hotel manager (William H. Macy), his young switchboard operator lover (Heather Graham) and her best friend (Joy Briant) also in the same profession, two nineteen-year-olds (Shia La Beouf and Brian Geraghty) who see Bobby as their only salvation from departing to Vietnam and their waitress friend (Mary-Elizabeth Winstead), two Kennedy volunteers (Joshua Jackson and Nick Cannon), a declining alcoholic singer (Demi Moore) and her desperate husband (Emilio Estevez), a student (Lindsay Lohan) willing to marry a classmate (Elijah Wood) just to prevent him from leaving like so many others for war, an African-American cook (Laurence Fishburne), two of his Mexican waiters (Freddy Rodriguez and Jacob Vargas) and their cruel boss (Cristian Slater), a couple affected by some psychological issues (Martin Sheen and Helen Hunt), a retired doorman (Anthony Hopkins) and his friend crushed by old age (Harry Belafonte), and finally, a hippie drug dealer (Ashton Kutcher).

None of these will remain unchanged from that night, each for one reason or another.

And now let's look at the present.

Has anything changed? Have all these senseless wars really disappeared? Does racism really no longer exist? Are we really not just citizens but a COMMUNITY?

This was Estevez’s main aim, to make us see the past with an intense reflection on the present and a fleeting glance at the future.

The actors are good (with the exception of the terrible Ashton Kutcher, incomprehensibly chosen for the role), highly recommended film, especially now that at the presidency something unprecedented is happening, continuing the ideals exposed in this film.

A white man and a woman in the White House.

Freedom...