Don't Worry: Oliver Stone Still Mistrusts the Government, Media and Technology

Promotes his new movie Snowden at Cannes Lions

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CANNES, France—Filmmaker Oliver Stone showed up at Cannes Lions to play his well-practiced, man-disaffected-with-everything routine, to accuse the corporate-owned media of complicity with first world governments, to blast tech giants like Google and Facebook—but mostly to promote his new movie based on the misadventures of whistleblower Edward Snowden.

In a talk with The Guardian's arts and culture editor Caspar Llewellyn Smith, in which he quoted everybody from Kennedy to Kissinger, Stone, director of films like Wall Street, Platoon and the forthcoming Snowden, characterized the present as "this bizarre time when this [dissenting] opinion is not allowed."

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