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Salvador (1986, UK/US)
In director Oliver Stone's political thriller about
the bloody 1980 civil war strife in Central America:
- the heavy-drinking, joke-telling drive south in
a Mustang convertible into politically-unstable El Salvador by
two adventurers: sleazy, obnoxious freelance American photo-journalist
Richard Boyle (Oscar-nominated James Woods) and his drug-taking
DJ buddy Doctor Rock (James Belushi)
- the horrors of war (stinking piles of corpses of raped/murdered
victims) that were uncovered when Boyle and John Cassidy (John Savage)
found themselves shooting at the body dump
- the scene in a San Salvador cathedral when Boyle
sought redemption and forgiveness from a priest but realized "that's
gonna be a little tough" to change his ways
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