Younger is quickly and swiftly arrested even if he does seem like he was ready for that. Thus, we soon see that with days before his explosive devices are meant to go off, a mystery man known simply as H is called in by the proper authorities and given permission to obtain whatever intel he can by any measure he deems necessary.
Alongside our mystery man is an FBI operative by the name of Helen Brody who although she most assuredly comprehends the franticness of the circumstances, but who is equally determined to oppose H and his particularly brutal methods for getting the information they need from Younger. Thus as the timer begins getting closer and closer to its explosive conclusion, we see as our driven and determined protagonist is forced to utilize some pretty brutal torture tactics if he is to find out where the explosive devices are even if in order to do so he might just have to engage in a desperate measure that is no more and no less than absolutely unthinkable in every sense of the word….
Now with a film like this, there is only one thing you are most likely wondering: how successful is it in shining a light on the debate of torture to say nothing of its worth as a tool on the present day battlefield that with how crazy the world is could literally be anywhere at any time?
Indeed I say this because this film is, in certain respects, a modern day war movie albeit one that is able to discern that combat is not just between men in uniforms with guns anymore. Instead, it is one that can often come down to being a mind game between 2 people: one who knows something bad is about to happen and one with an iron will who is determined to get what this person knows out of them in any way they can due to the fact that quite a few lives are hanging in the balance both in the initial catastrophe, but also in the ensuing vengeful strike that would most assuredly follow.
To that end, this slice of cinematic pie can be quite difficult to sit through due to the fact that it deals with this topic with an integrity that might make you a tad bit uneasy whilst also inspiring you to have a genuine discussion with those you watch it with on if the positives of the utilization of torture outweigh the negatives.
Now as touched on a little bit in the previous paragraph, the key area where this movie is the strongest is in how does a respectful job of showing both sides of the argument as it shows both how horrific these actions can be on a person physically and psychologically while at the same time telling us about how these actions, although depraved, might be the best way to save thousands of other lives.
Indeed this is a film that forces you to figure out for yourself a few questions. Not only where you as an individual draw the line between brutalizing one life in the hope that doing so might save scores of other lives, but also if your line shifts when the one life is that of a self-confessed terrorist whose only aim is to bring pain and chaos to the lives of thousands?
Yet even with these in mind, the key thing that this film does admirably it actually makes its characters human beings right down to the trinity of main characters in the form of the diabolical extremist, his determined to break him interrogator, and the overwhelmed FBI agent assigned to the case respectively.
Yes these characters by and large could have been simple archetypes, but the movies does a great job at giving us characters who are both three-dimensional as well as of perspectives towards the overall debate the movie presents us with. Suffice it to say that this slice of cinematic pie is one that brilliantly keeps your audience riveted on both a psychological and pathos level.
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But they are still being blamed for their own deaths. Read More. For decades, McLeod says he and former students like him would wonder what had happened to friends and classmates. The Kamloops Indian Residential school was one of the largest in Canada and operated from the late 19th century to the late s.
It was opened and run by the Catholic Church until the federal government took it over in the late s. Harvey McLeod attended Kamloops in the late s. When FBI Special Agent Helen Brody Moss and her team see news bulletins looking for Yusuf, they launch an investigation, which is curtailed when they are summoned to a high school, which has been converted into a black site under military command.
They are shown Yusuf's complete tape, where he threatens to detonate three nuclear bombs in separate U. A special interrogator, "H" Samuel L. Jackson , is brought in to force Yusuf to reveal the locations of the nuclear bombs. H quickly shows his capability and cruelty by chopping off one of Yusuf's fingers with a small hatchet. Horrified, Special Agent Brody attempts to put a stop to the measures. Her superiors make it clear that the potentially disastrous consequences necessitate these extreme measures.
As the plot unfolds, H escalates his methods with Brody as the "good cop". Brody realizes that Yusuf anticipated that he would be tortured. Yusuf then makes his demands: he would like the President of the United States to announce a cessation of support for "puppet governments" and dictatorships in Muslim countries and a withdrawal of American troops from all Muslim countries.
The group immediately dismisses the possibility of his demands being met, citing the United States' declared policy of not negotiating with terrorists. When Brody accuses Yusuf of faking the bomb threat in order to make a point about the moral character of the United States government, he breaks down and agrees that it was all a ruse.
He gives her an address to prove it. They find a room that matches the scene in the video tape and find evidence on the roof. A soldier removes a picture from an electrical switch which triggers a tremendous C-4 explosion at a nearby shopping mall visible from the roof. The explosion kills 53 people. Angry at the senseless deaths, Brody returns to Yusuf and cuts his chest with a scalpel.
Yusuf is unafraid and demands she cut him. He justifies the deaths in the shopping mall, stating that the Americans kill that many people every day.
Yusuf says he allowed himself to be caught so he could face his oppressors.
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