![]() ![]() U-Turn, on a certain level, feels like a film he made to further explore the new visual techniques he had been developing in those two prior films, a sort of thinking man's MTV editing style full of odd angles, filters, saturated colors, varied levels of film grain, etc. U-Turn was Stone's next film after the brilliant (and as they say "highly controversial") films Natural Born Killers and Nixon. Two such films are 1987's Talk Radio (which I hope to get to some other day) and 1997's U-Turn. These are the rare character driven films that are just there to tell a solid story without the polarizing impact and creative limitations of the biopic genre. It's the odd man out films in his oeuvre that I find easiest to love but they also are easy to overlook in context of the other more outspoken cinematic history lessons he's known for delivering. ![]() I really enjoy his presidential trilogy ( JFK, Nixon, W.), whereas his Vietnam trilogy is a bit hit or miss, with Platoon, a bona fide masterpiece and Best Picture winner, leaving nowhere to go but down in subsequent efforts Born on the 4th of July (it reeks of apple pie and cheese and I find it nearly impossible to watch Tom Cruise in anything but Magnolia these days) and Heaven and Earth (which I remember being painfully dull in my first and only viewing some ten years ago). Even Any Given Sunday and Wall Street are meant to expose our cultural institutions. Oliver Stone has made a career out of dramatizing real events and almost never stops just to tell a story. ![]()
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