Watching the DVD of this movie I kept thinking maybe it would redeem itself and show "the other side: How do the Islamitic fascists treat their prisoners? Then it dawned on me. There is no "other side". The Islamitic fascists behead those they capture. They don't have prisoners. They don't get the chance to "torture" anyone because it's pretty much impossible to torture someone who has no head.
I was also waiting to see how the evil Americans use suicide bombers to kill innocent men, women and children in markets, on buses, in schools, and any and every other public place. Oh wait, silly me. Americans don't use suicide bombers. Or maybe Gibney has plans for a sequel which will document this hitherto unknown evil side of America.
I must have fallen asleep at some point because I missed the part where good 'ol Alex showed American pilots flying into the skyscrapers of Kabul and Baghdad killing thousands of innocent Afghans and Iraqis. The fact there are no skyscrapers in these peaceful, ancient cities is beside the point. He could have shown Americans flying into ANY building and slaying innocents, after all isn't that what American pilots would do if they had half a chance?
The poor taxi driver, Dingle-Berry, or Dilawar (to use his Afghan name), the star of the show, reminded me a lot of Burt Lancaster in "The Birdman of Alcatraz".
You just know Dingle and Burt were innocents; there is no way these souls could be guilty of, well, anything. What I'd like to know, and Mr. Gibney did not resolve this for me, is just how does he know that Dilawar NEVER, ever, ever, ever transported enemy combatants in his little taxi? I find it hard, dare I say impossible, to believe that Dilawar questioned every passenger he ever picked up to make sure they were not combatants. If he really was the saint and martyr Alex made him out to be why is it we were never told, point blank, that Dilawar refused and truly did NOT transport combatants?
I was going to start out my comments saying this film borders on treason, but after writing the above I guess that would have been wrong to say. This film does not, I repeat, does not border on treason. It is treasonous through and through. Anyone who watches this film and says "Right On Comrade Gibney" is as guilty as Alex of treason.
I was also waiting to see how the evil Americans use suicide bombers to kill innocent men, women and children in markets, on buses, in schools, and any and every other public place. Oh wait, silly me. Americans don't use suicide bombers. Or maybe Gibney has plans for a sequel which will document this hitherto unknown evil side of America.
I must have fallen asleep at some point because I missed the part where good 'ol Alex showed American pilots flying into the skyscrapers of Kabul and Baghdad killing thousands of innocent Afghans and Iraqis. The fact there are no skyscrapers in these peaceful, ancient cities is beside the point. He could have shown Americans flying into ANY building and slaying innocents, after all isn't that what American pilots would do if they had half a chance?
The poor taxi driver, Dingle-Berry, or Dilawar (to use his Afghan name), the star of the show, reminded me a lot of Burt Lancaster in "The Birdman of Alcatraz".
You just know Dingle and Burt were innocents; there is no way these souls could be guilty of, well, anything. What I'd like to know, and Mr. Gibney did not resolve this for me, is just how does he know that Dilawar NEVER, ever, ever, ever transported enemy combatants in his little taxi? I find it hard, dare I say impossible, to believe that Dilawar questioned every passenger he ever picked up to make sure they were not combatants. If he really was the saint and martyr Alex made him out to be why is it we were never told, point blank, that Dilawar refused and truly did NOT transport combatants?
I was going to start out my comments saying this film borders on treason, but after writing the above I guess that would have been wrong to say. This film does not, I repeat, does not border on treason. It is treasonous through and through. Anyone who watches this film and says "Right On Comrade Gibney" is as guilty as Alex of treason.