Did Oliver Stone check directly into rehab after finishing this? Sweating and palpitating and yammering about editing techniques, while strapped to a gurney? “IT’S THE GREATEST AMERICAN ALLEGORY, DONCHA SEE? RACE! SLAVERY! COMMERCIALISM! TOXIC MASCULINITY!!!! You’ll see…you’ll all see…” he grimaces, while doctors prepare all the rhinoceros tranquillisers they could find.
Somewhere around the halfway mark in this almost three hour ode to delirium, one of the players releases a baby alligator into the shower area and Al Pacino, the…