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Suburræterna (2023)
Disappointing
Not at the level of the previous seasons, not by a long way. Overly dramatic, silly plot about a couple of siblings with literally nothing going for them suddenly taking over Ostia. I dont think so...
The characters are there from before but this time they are predictable and uninteresting. They have all lost their edge because the script is poor and the plot formulaic. There are no more moral quandaries for the rising politician. Theres no more Samurai trying to run the city against the odds. Obviously no more Aurelio. So Spadino gets the central role and he is no longer in any way interesting because HE is not interested himself.
Didn't need to be made.
MotherFatherSon (2019)
Exceptional drama
Modern day Sidney Lumet style work about a media mogul influencing a countries direction and his ruthless ideals of raising his son.
It's getting low scores from low brainpower. You won't be disappointed if you have an attention span. Outstanding performances from all the cast.
The Putin Interviews (2017)
Outstanding non partisan documentary leaves you to decide
Many of the media hawks would have you believe Stone has made Putin look good here. But they are just exercising their bias without critically reviewing the material.
The fact is all the tough questions are asked, and Putin answers them. Whether you choose to believe his answers is the choice of the viewer. Similar to the doc on Castro.
Putin is obviously a very clever man, and appears to be very logical in his answers. Probably the problem for Americans is that their country does so many bad things around the world, it feels like an anti American piece because nobody other then Stone really highlights these methods.
I for one believe a lot of what Putin is saying, but at the same time I would be very cautious to believe everything he has said regarding the Ukraine. And as far as only a $60 billion military budget per year compared to the US's $660, that doesn't really add up. If your flying 70 bombing missions a day into Syria, that's a lot of planes and a lot of bombs and a lot of cash.
Overall its intriguing to hear Putin without the paradigm of a partisan media forcing innuendo's down our throat for whatever agenda their corporate owners have. Probably Stone has got as deep into Putin as anyone will ever get, and its an interesting challenge to decide if Putin is telling the truth or not about a lot of things....