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Salvador (1986)
★ 7.1 · 404 ratings on TMDB
Dateline: 1980, El Salvador. Correspondent: Richard Boyle, Photojournalist - Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Belfast, Lebanon, Cambodia...
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
DirectorOliver Stone
The emergence reading
Salvador keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E12/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
