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‘Suburban Fury’ Review: Sara Jane Moore, Who Tried to Assassinate President Ford, Gets Her Own Self-Centered, Radical-Chic Documentary
Robinson Devor's film limits itself to Moore's pointed rendering of her own story, resulting in a rapt doc thriller told by an unreliable narrator.
I went into “ Suburban Fury,” a documentary about Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford in 1975 (she failed, due mostly to a faulty gun), not knowing much about her and never having given a lot of thought, frankly, to that particular freak spasm of 1970s violence. This dovetailed with one of the key political revelations of the ’70s: the litany of assassination and coup attempts in foreign nations instigated by the CIA, not to mention the FBI’s collusion in the murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Despite her radicalization, she remained as committed to her FBI work, writing out lengthy reports each day, as she was to her causes, and this sense of shooting off in two polar-opposite ideological directions at once echoes the psychotic torn personality of Lee Harvey Oswald (something the film never takes note of).
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