YMMV / Salvador

• Anvilicious: Being a film directed by Oliver Stone, the underlying message that El Salvador at the time was ruled by a bunch of right-wing brutal fanatics that the US Government should not support is not particularly subtle, nor is expressed in a subdued way.
• Complete Monster: Major Maximiliano "Max" Casanova is both the leader of the far-right ARANA party and the head of death squads plaguing El Salvador during The Salvadoran Civil War. As an influential presidential candidate with a raging desire to destroy the "Communist threat", Max perpetrates massacres on his own people, leaving thousands of innocents dead. Reuniting the ARANA's inner circle to celebrate the victory of Ronald Reagan, Max orders the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero for the crime of criticizing the brutality towards civilians; the army also opens fire against churchgoers. At a conference, Max pins the blame on the FMLN and denies the existence of death squads when confronted by Richard Boyle. In response to Boyle's words, Max has the younger brother of his lover tortured to death and four American missionaries raped and executed.
• Vindicated by Cable: The film would have mired in obscurity had Channel Z featured it in LA, whose campaigning earned it two Academy Award nominations, one for James Woods, one for Oliver Stone.

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