Thirteen Days Movie Report

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Introduction
The thirteen days movie is a 2000 American film which describes the historical information
about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The movie starts by displaying the U.S political
leadership whereby the Kevin Costner star is featured as the White House assistant. In addition,
Steven Culp is described as the Attorney General and Dylan Baker and Robert Kennedy acting
as the Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.1 The former Attorney general Robert Kennedy
tries to reveal the inside within the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis through the file.
Therefore, the movie report will include narration of the key concepts which relates to an
important episode of the Cold War between USSR and USA. In addition, the report will also
articulate different concepts related to lessons about the causes and effects of the Cold War and
the threat caused by nuclear warfare.
The narration on important episodes of the Cold War between the USA and USSR.
Entirely the film tries to reveal what happened during the Cold War mostly between USSR and
Sarthe chronicle starts at Tuesday morning October 16, 1962, when Robert Kennedy learns that
Russia has been installing new weapons in Cuba. At the same time that is early morning,
President Kennedy called for a meeting whereby he called the cabinet members and other
government officials to discuss the Soviet crisis on the installation of nuclear weapons.
Immediate action was to be formulated and all the respective authorities were to participate in
1 Alexander Fedorov, Levitskaya Anastasia, and Gorbatkova Olga. "Directions, Objectives, and
Author's Concepts of Audiovisual Media Interpretations of School and University Theme in the
Soviet Cinema of the'Thaw'Period (1956–1968)." (European Journal of Contemporary
Education 6, no. 3 (2017) [516-529].

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carrying out the action plan for the incidence.2 The film shows how different authorities raised
arguments about the issue of installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba. After a short time, the
meeting arrived at a solution whereby the president demanded the press not to reveal the matter,
unfortunately, the USSR discovered that the US was aware of the missiles installed in Cuba. The
film shows that the USSR was still installing nuclear weapons as the US was still struggling to
make an apt decision to control the incidence.
By the end of the meeting, the film indicates how officials agreed to construct a blockade around
Cuba but some characters in the film were suggesting for a military strike in Cuba. At long last,
there was no overall consensus agreed between the authorities but the president supported the
blockade. His stand for blockade had moral lessons since he said that it was good enough to use
a blockage than to use military strike since more civilians would have been killed within the
struggle. He said that the use of a military strike for confronting the conflict with the USSR
would result in a significant risk.
Therefore, the movie clearly shows that by Thursday evening the majority had agreed for a
blockade. At this time president, Kennedy decided to use two groups whereby each group was to
provide details on how to organize the blockade. Some of the members were seen unable to
initiate new techniques which will favor the use of blockade and by the end of the day, the film
shows how the president was suggesting the use of military at the event where the blockade was
seen ineffective to provoke the soviet in Cuba.
2 Gregory Frame, "The Myth of John F. Kennedy in Film and Television." (Film & History: An
Interdisciplinary Journal 46, no. 2 (2016) [21-34].