Oliver Stone has cemented himself as not only one of the best directors of the past 100 years or so, but also one of the most controversial. One the one hand you see Stone in the mainstream and he just kills it with films like Wall Street, Platoon or Born on the Fourth of July. On the other you can tell that the man just decides to do his own thing with a film like Natural Born Killers. There are times he goes for Hollywood and others he goes for himself. In any situation he’s going for originality, creativity, and is never afraid to put a political stamp on his films.
But here’s Oliver Stone doing something a little different. With The Putin Interviews, Stone is taking us right into the mind and space of Vladimir Putin. As divisive as Stone can be, he doesn’t hold a candle to Putin. And apparently it seems that – over the course of several years – Stone has been traveling back-and-forth to Russia to conduct Q&A sessions with the controversial Russian leader
This is what Oliver Stone himself said about the film:
It’s not a documentary as much as a question and answer session. It opens up a whole viewpoint that we as Americans haven’t heard… He talks pretty straight. I think we did him the justice of putting (his comments) into a Western narrative that could explain their viewpoint in the hopes that it will prevent continued misunderstanding and a dangerous situation — on the brink of war.
Check out the trailer below:
