Salon.com > Savages http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Savages”: Oliver Stone, back on drugs at last http://www.salon.com/2012/07/05/savages_oliver_stone_back_on_drugs_at_last/ http://www.salon.com/2012/07/05/savages_oliver_stone_back_on_drugs_at_last/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:15:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12951309 Oliver Stone is a puzzling phenomenon, but on balance we're better off having him than not having him. While I agree with a lot of Stone's political opinions, even at the nuttier edges, I don't think his espousal of various left-wing causes is all that important when it comes to the goodness or badness of his films. (I can definitely live without the hero worship directed at Venezuelan despot Hugo Chávez, displayed most embarrassingly in the 2009 documentary "South of the Border.") Overall, I much prefer Stone in his debauched libertarian pop-entertainer mode to his self-assigned role as dispenser of morality, political wisdom and conspiracy theory.

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