Rendition
Thought provoking. Rendition was rated 15 but after watching I would have put it in the 18 category, along with Eastern Promises, just on the torture scenes alone. Rendition tells a good story that has a sound moral purpose and does so in an emotionally engaging way.
For me the big a-ha moment came when the terror suspect confesses under torture. I had a flashback to reading, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller in school. All you had to do to save yourself and stop the torture was confess your guilt and name names. The innocent, who protested their innocence, paid with their lives. If it was true in the 1600s why the hell can’t we see that it’s still true today?
The ending of the main story line was a mite twee but I will forgive the movie that since it’s heart was in the right place. Rendition reinforced for me the fact that torturing people only makes more terrorists, it doesn’t solve a damn thing and it only demeans and dehumanises us all.
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