"Neither a Pimp for the Revolution nor a Shill for the Establishment"

"Early in the film, an interviewee says, 'We were in such a hurry to create a martyr that we forgot about the man.' Asked about the process of closing that gap, Rodriguez notes that Salazar has often been thought of 'more as myth than history. Though aspects of that myth were compelling, it always managed to privilege conjecture and innuendo about his death over details and facts about his death and his life. We set out to bring historical fact and context to the story by insisting on primary sources.'"


Michael Nordine in the LA Weekly discusses the new documentary Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle.