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A not-very-short movie review
Feb. 13th, 2007 12:03 pmI finished watching Road To Guantanamo last night. I want to comment intelligently on it, but I'm still kind of reeling. I've watched a lot of movies lately that were upsetting for one reason or another, but not like this.
If you haven't seen it, it's about three young men from Tipton who end up in Afghanistan in September/October 2001, get captured by the Northern Alliance, and eventually imprisoned in Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta. While it's never made clear why they decide to go visit a war zone and then try to leave almost immediately (they come off as a bit naïve more than anything else), it is immediately obvious that the Americans intend to treat them as terrorists, despite the lack of any evidence. In fact, it's their tormentors' zeal that eventually frees them—the CIA insists that the fuzzy faces in a videotape of a bin Laden rally belong to them, but the video is clearly dated; at the time, one of the men was working in British shop at the time, and the other two were doing community service and regularly reporting to parole officers. Even with the most obvious alibis ever, the men are still held in Gitmo for three months and the Americans try to get them to sign papers admitting that they're linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban.
( thoughts )
If you haven't seen it, it's about three young men from Tipton who end up in Afghanistan in September/October 2001, get captured by the Northern Alliance, and eventually imprisoned in Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta. While it's never made clear why they decide to go visit a war zone and then try to leave almost immediately (they come off as a bit naïve more than anything else), it is immediately obvious that the Americans intend to treat them as terrorists, despite the lack of any evidence. In fact, it's their tormentors' zeal that eventually frees them—the CIA insists that the fuzzy faces in a videotape of a bin Laden rally belong to them, but the video is clearly dated; at the time, one of the men was working in British shop at the time, and the other two were doing community service and regularly reporting to parole officers. Even with the most obvious alibis ever, the men are still held in Gitmo for three months and the Americans try to get them to sign papers admitting that they're linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban.
( thoughts )
