“We can’t stop his shots, I don’t like this in the cinema”: 39 years ago, this sad movie is one of the best of Oliver Stone

The world of reporters of journalism and war is often mentioned in cinema. And, happily, in great films, sometimes the classics become: Warren Beatty’s reds; Men of the President; Roland Jopp’s tears, who said that the terrible violence of the dictatorship of the husband Rouge; Revelations of Michael Mann; Pentagon sheets by Steven Spielberg; Spotlight; Chinese syndrome; Roger Spozewood is a very effective skirt that has a civil war in Nicaragua in the late 1970s …

An imperfect list that would be incomplete if we missed a very powerful work that has been signed by one of the most loyal filmmakers, not to mention the angry American Cinema: Oliver Stone Salvador. This third film of the director, shot in front of his masterpiece, but released in 1986 the same year is the best.

Unlike the Civil War of Alex Garland, which begins with freezing and a very convincing hypothetical postulate in the United States, Salvador is very realistic of his time.

“The obsession of live captives”

In this violent cargo, against Ronald Reagan’s intervention, in Central and South America, Salvador is a predatory civil war that will make more than 75,000 dead, the stone denies cookies by the United States death units, responsible for the worst abuse of the continent. As Salvador Journalist Oscar Martinez Penat recalled, in his work Soldier and partisan: Oral History of Civil War in SalvadorPublished in 2018.

“Every day, in the morning, on the roads, on public discharge, we find bodies exhausted, tortured, alive, cut, crushed, until the most abusive suffering is over. He wrote.

When he was released, the film’s echo was strengthened as he describes the events that were still going on: in 1979, the civil war in Salvador will not end until 1992, with Chapultepk’s peace treaties signed on January 16 of this year in Mexico.

In the hell of a civil war

Salvador is a history of Richard Bowl, a photo reporter that includes wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, Middle East, Ireland and Central America. In 1980, his personal life was disbanded: his wife left him under his son’s arm.

Alcohol and ruined, it ends with expulsion from home. He decides to return to Salvador, where he has already managed to obtain his bark, taking some photos of the quarrel within the established media. But arriving in the country, he sees his hopes for the madness of Salvador in the 80’s, with the squadrons of death. In a country with fire and blood, she finds Maria, a woman who once loved and discovers the horrors of an unknown conflict from the rest of the world …

James Woods and Jim Belush (supported by solid John Savaji) were best suited to Oliver Stone camera as they were upset, but terribly effective, especially after Richard Boyle’s scenario was co -founded.

“Despite my experience in Vietnam I have forgotten”

Seven years ago on the TCM channel dedicated to the feast of the cycle, Oliver Stone returned for a long time Interesting interviewAbout the experience of this movie. “In my film, I was resisting the Salvador government, and Richard Bowl was no doubt. Richard was a friend. He took me there and changed my life to some point.

Richard had bad habits, he was a great drink, he was Irish, he loved women … he was all the journalists who should have been. I took her and worked together on the script when she wasn’t drunk. He was a good journalist in hell, he left in the most dangerous places. Without it, the film won’t be what it is.

“Salvador has refused all distributors in the United States”

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Salvador, Shock and Punch Cinema Elevated George Delew. The film was the subject of beautiful Blu-ray publication in 2022 with interesting additives around the film. And since it is not available on any flow platform …