Oliver Stone and Vladimir Putin in “The Putin Interviews” (Credit: Courtesy Of Showtime/Komandir)
Watching Oliver Stone’s “The Putin Interviews” — currently available on Showtime — called to mind a pivotal scene from another recent film that had major geopolitical consequences: the 2014 Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy “The Interview.”
As Franco’s character Dave Skylark interviews North Korean despot Kim Jong Un, it seems like his softball questions, and his acquiescence to a parade of anti-American answers, are going to embarrass both himself and the country whose values he is supposed to uphold.
And then, when the dictator least expects it, Skylark pounces …read more
Source: Salon
