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Cannes Conversation With Oliver Stone On New Documentary ‘Lula,’ Hopes For One More Narrative Film & A Sobering Take On Putin & Ukraine
Cannes Conversation With Oliver Stone On New Docu 'Lula,' One More Narrative Film & A Surprising Take On Vladimir Putin & Ukraine
This happened after a hacker exposed a conspiracy meant to take down the labor leader in a corruption scandal that tied back to Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and the most powerful judge in the country. Given the film you made about the whistleblower Edward Snowden, it is interesting that the behind the scenes manipulations of justice meant to bring Lula to heel were exposed by a hacker motivated by his own ire over a drug arrest. Are there echoes here of Vietnam, which you covered in a Best Picture winning film Platoon, recounting your own experience of buying into a U.S. agenda that led you to volunteer to fight, only to find you were way over your head in a chaotic war that had no endgame.
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