Oh, Yay, a Political Drama in Which the US 'Saves' Another Country
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Our Brand is Crisis, brought to you by the producers of Argo, stars Sandra Bullock playing another white savior type, this time as a US political envoy tasked with the glorious mission of literally SAVING Bolivia, even though—oopsies!!!—she doesn’t speak Spanish! Haha!! GOOD ONE, TRAILER.
The film, as Vulture points out, is a “fictionalized version” of the real-life 2002 Bolivian presidential election, in which then unpopular Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (aka “Goni”) beat out current president Evo Morales, the peoples’ candidate, with help from James Carville’s political marketing company. In the trailer, Bullock plays “the best campaign strategist in the game”—a fictional operative of Carville—on a righteous mission to support an unpopular, out-of-touch candidate (the character representing Goni). The film is a “remake” of the 2005 documentary of the same name, which captured the same election as it happened in reality.