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Timelessly entertaining, cinematic wonder, etc... Yet - much needs to be said on how this together with "The General" make Keaton a mass cultural factor in the rise of the second KKK in the 1920s and the Southern Democrat reaction enshrined with the rise to power of Wilson. I mean, a whole steamboat named after "Stonewall Jackson" and set in Mississippi, c'mon. Someone needs to write the book on white supremacy in American mass culture with the coming of cinema, from "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 to this, from WWI to the Great Depression, if someone hasn't already
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A tightly wound Dante's Inferno style journey through the depths of political economy. Costas-Gavras on xanax, with a large dose of "Heart of Darkness." Our Virgil, as well as Lucifer, is Yvan, a Swiss private banker at a distinguished bank founded by his grandfather, catering to the world's elite, but with a special presence in Argentina. Yvan's partner Keys, who ran the bank's operations and relationships in Argentina, has suddenly disappeared, leaving Yvan to clean up the mess and restore…