Anyone else see the movie "Rendition"..

[CoffeeCat]

...with Reece Witherspoon?

I saw it last night, and it was really devastating to watch.

Knowing that our country does these things to other human beings
is really revolting beyond measure.

I felt like I had a front-row seat to torture, and it nearly made
me physically ill. I'd never seen water boarding before.

We know that torture doesn't work. The information obtained through
torture is unreliable.

There are people at the helm of our government who are sociopaths.
They are inhumane, very psychic-ly fractured cowards.

I'm so ashamed of what we've done and what we're doing.

[Turbineguy]

1. The problem as I see it

is that by fictionalizng it we make it not happen. It's just a movie.

[CoffeeCat]

3. Just the opposite...

The movie made the issue of torture more vivid. It draws attention
to the fact that it's not fiction.

The movie depicted how our government behaves--and our REAL US policies regarding
rendition and torture were laid out. Everyone knows that these policies are real
in our current government---which helps to bring to life a story that cannot be
told--because there are no rolling cameras in a torture chamber.

Furthermore, the movie also depicts behind-the-scenes actions of politicians.
We are shown how and why politicians back down. The dialog between a Senator
and his senior aid clearly show why politicians don't fight these things, "If
we fight this, they'll make it a national security issue and we'll be called bin Laden lovers!
Is that what you want?"

Anyone who sees this movie knows that we looking through a window---into what our
government is doing.

The movie puts a face and a story on our government's policy on torture---which is
what this issue lacks.

I give kudos to the producers of this film. At least they're trying to communicate
about this issue.

[stillcool]

5. I don't think the saying has ever been more apt........

that there is more truth in fiction, and more lies in fact.

[DU9598]

2. It was okay

I wish that the ending could have shown someone held accountable for the torture.

[CoffeeCat]

4. That's exactly what I said to my husband...

...after the movie was finished.

I wanted to see all of those torture participants--including those in the US government--sent away to prison.
I also wanted to see the Senator realize that he put politics before an innocent American's life. It would
have been nice to see the Senator suffer emotionally as a result of his cowardice.

Maybe that is what the makers of the film intended. We don't see the torturers and the sociopaths
punished. That leaves us with an incomplete feeling. Maybe they wanted us to leave feeling
uncomfortable---because that is the current state of this issue in our country.

People are being shuffled to prisons in other countries and tortured--and it can happen to anyone--even
an American. This is our policy.

Americans should be unsettled and outraged--and wanting justice. So maybe that is why we were left with
the baggage at the end.

I got the feeling that the people who made this movie weren't being salacious. They were screaming
for us to do something.