The Fall of Fujimori

I think it is a successful effort to portray an enormously complex set of facts in a very short amount of time. The film does show what the other commentators want to ignore: that Fujimori was probably the most popular politician in Peru's modern history. He was credited for saving Peru from the two-headed hydra: hyperinflation and Khmer Rouge-type terrorism. He was, as well, fatally flawed, and both sides are evenly shown in the film. The director managed to obtain some extraordinary footage: she includes, for instance, a home video taken by Hiro, Fujimori's teenage son, showing his dad and sinister Mr. Montesinos plotting how to cover something up. How did she manage to obtain that footage and also have unlimited access to the ex-president in exile? Given that the director is an attractive young American, perhaps the movie should more properly be called The Seduction of Fujimori.