vikramgandhi

I'd say, most recently, in Honduras, San Pedro Sula, I was in secluded barrio meeting the leaders of MS13. Our security team was shitting themselves, but it didn't seem so crazy to me. Other than that, a Taliban camp in North West Frontier Province. That being both experiences didn't seem dangerous at the time.

What is the most terrifying is how little we see what really matters to us, and who misguided the news is. We know what celebrities are wearing but not who's dying to so we can wear our sneakers. So when I see that disparity, you find out how complicit we all are with the shit we would normally object to. But since its depressing, the news doesn't show it. To me that's exactly what i need to see. Our normal news is mostly gossip.

i think there are such few films in this sort of hybrid genre that the comparison makes sense. I also really like Borat - he was a foreigner that put a mirror on America and SBC is terribly funny. I do think the goals were different - and I think we were trying to something new that we had never seen before.

I try to keep in touch with people, a lot of it is social media, or get on the phone whenever I can. This past season on HBO has made me a bit off the radar but I plan to continue being friends with everyone in the film that I can. Beyond that, no regrets really - i can't imagine what would have happened had anything been different.

Simon tells it best: https://news.vice.com/video/russian-roulette-the-invasion-of-ukraine-dispatch-thirty-one