Just watched The Mauritanian, with a good cast: Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch, Shailene Woodley. Tahar Rahim is outstanding.
The film recounts the frantic seizure of suspects after the 9/11 attacks and their consequent imprisonment, torture, and murder, without any sort of due process whatsoever. The combination of the heavy-handed application of the CLASSIFIED stamp and outright lies is damning. While the film ends with the main character's eventual release and repatriation, it also left me feeling that the U.S. military was severely corrupted and forever stained by the operation of the concentration camp at Guantanamo and their vicious and criminal behavior has gone unpunished to this day.
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