Can people question conspiracy?

I have recently for the first time watched Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995) and I am at a loss. I have more than a passing interest in the era. Essentially the period starting from 1958 to about 1978, basically the era covered by James Ellroy in his Underworld U.S.A. trilogy.

The film is grand, albeit somewhat too long and the structure at time feels rather linear but has idea where it is trying to go, featuring magnificent performances across the board and scenes that weirdly enough recalled, for me anyway, Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983) in that idea that the power the president holds is terrifying and ultimately useless. But the reason I write this blog now, seeing as my 100 Favourite Films list is consuming my life and I haven't blogged in a week or so is my research into the film.

The response by critics was mostly positive, but the film was damned by several political figures, Nixon's family and strangely enough Walt Disney's wife. But as I surveyed Oliver Stone's career and subsequent filmography I learned about John F. Kennedy.

JFK (1991) is one of the greatest films ever made. It is Stone's Godfather, his opus, and immediately damned as historically inaccurate and therefore utterly unreliable. But people are missing the point.

You cannot watch films like Nixon or JFK and expect the truth. For starters, a filmmaker never has the facts to honestly tell you the complete truth. Especially in an era wrapped in espionage and distrust. But it should make one think. Can you honestly tell me that there isn't a single impulse in your brain that doesn't say after watching JFK that maybe the truth is not the one that we as a planet have been told?

And this goes much further than that era! I am not one to stir the pot or throw petrol on the flames but in a current day climate of illegal war and terrorist actions, why can't people read a little more into the truth of things?

I leave this thought to you good people!