Wednesday, July 9. 2008
Movie: Taxi To The Dark Side
| Since I was a big fan of Alex Gibney's Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room, I had a piqued interest in his later movie Taxi to the Dark Side. Very appropriately, this movie won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Needless to say, I'll be viewing this when it finally comes to my area (hopefully before it is released on DVD {which is rumored to be on 09/30/08  } ).Update (10/09/08): Have finally had the chance to view this searing documentary, I strongly recommend that people view it, especially Americans; whether they are conservative, liberal, Republican or Democrat is irrelevant. It is very disturbing and disquieting, to say the least, to see the American government condoning the same actions into law that we normally associate with other countries that are violators of human rights. An interesting footnote is a posthumous interview with Alex Gibney's dad, Frank, himself a former Navy interrogator during WWII, stating, among other things, how some of the laws that the Bush administration put into effect made him lose his faith in the American government. |  |
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