An extended belly-bump of a documentary, South of the Border is Oliver Stone’s feel-good take on the new South American politics. A vanity project by proxy, Stone attempts to restore (in the case of Hugo Chávez) and establish the reputations of the new guard of South American leadership, a superfriends conglomerate that rejects the imperial interests of the United States. Though he lavishes praise on his subjects for being hyper-masculine and free-thinking, Stone is downright girlish in his devotion, scoffing at charges made against the leaders rather than examining them. The plethora of Fox News-based inanity makes such elisions pretty easy: Obviously the haters — notably a pair of anchors who can’t tell the difference between cocoa and coca — are nuts, right?
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REVIEW: Oliver Stone’s Suck-Up Safari Dooms South of the Border
