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9 March 2006 (UK)
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Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge. full summary | add synopsis
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Guantanamo
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Prison
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Interrogation
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Wedding
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Torture
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4 wins
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5 nominations
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(9 articles)
Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me Trailer Starring Casey Affleck
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Cruz Takes Best Actress at EFA
(From WENN. 4 December 2006)
(From FilmJunk. 6 November 2009, 11:34 AM, PST)
Cruz Takes Best Actress at EFA
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Riz Ahmed | ... | Shafiq | |
| Farhad Harun | ... | Ruhel | |
| Waqar Siddiqui | ... | Monir | |
| Afran Usman | ... | Asif Iqbal | |
| Shahid Iqbal | ... | Zahid | |
| Sher Khan | ... | Sher Khan | |
| Jason Salkey | ... | Military Interrogator Sheberghan | |
| Jacob Gaffney | ... | Kandahar Interregator #1 | |
| Mark Holden | ... | Kandahar Interrogator #2 | |
| Duane Henry | ... | Guard #1 | |
| William Meredith | ... | Guard #2 | |
| Payman Bina | ... | Guard #3 | |
| Adam James | ... | SAS Interrogator | |
| James Buller | ... | MI5 | |
| Mark Sproston | ... | Embassy Man |
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Rated R for language and disturbing violent content.
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95 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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UK:15 |
Singapore:NC-16 (cut) |
USA:R |
Netherlands:16 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Finland:K-15 |
Hungary:16 |
Sweden:11 |
Malaysia:(Banned) |
Australia:MA |
Italy:T |
Brazil:14 |
Argentina:13 |
Germany:12 |
Portugal:M/16 |
South Korea:15
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The film was shot in DV.
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Crew or equipment visible: When one of the "detainees" is first brought into the interrogation tent, a guard accidentally lifts the man's shirt, revealing the wire of a remote microphone.
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References Back to the Future (1985)
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Even if a third of what the Tipton Three alleged to have happened to them is true, that should outrage all Americans.
But since there seems to be this belief - perpetuated by Dubya and his cronies - that this administration is somehow doing all this to protect us Americans from the bad guys, there is no outrage that we torture prisoners, hold them without charges or access to counsel, deprive them of civil liberties, all in the name of security. What poppycock!
Michael Winterbottom's film does not answer an important question - exactly what kind of "help" were these three chaps going to provide in Afghanistan? However, what happened to them should embarrass all of us.
Our foreign policy is so dumb - we prohibit trade with and travel to Cuba because it's a communist nation, but have no qualms about trading with or allowing travel to China and Vietnam - and our leaders so hypocritical.
Dubya claims to have freed Iraq from a brutal dictator (who, incidentally, was someone we supported not too long ago, when Dubya's dad was veep, to be exact, and Rummy was shaking hands with Saddam), and yet the people running Iraq today seem no better. They're still torturing people, violent militias carry out retribution killings, and our leaders stick their heads in the sand and say everything's alright.
"The Road to Guantanamo" is shot as a pseudo-documentary. The Tipton Three are portrayed as likable lugs who got caught up in something they never intended. There's an element of black comedy to all this - they keep their senses of humor as they recount the horrible, distasteful and despicable manner in which they're treated.
That we would have had an American pretending to be British to try and coerce these three men doesn't surprise me in the least. After all, it turns out Dubya considered painting the UN logo on a plane to tempt Saddam to shoot it down so we could have a reason to wage war. (Gulf of Tonkin, anyone?)
This is an incredibly difficult, at times harrowing, film to watch. There are those of us who still, foolishly perhaps, believe in the American ideal. A nation that stands for human rights and decent treatment of prisoners. But, I know, reality is far different. We have a Supreme Court justice who scoffs at giving Gitmo prisoners their day in court and a government that believes the Geneva Conventions are antiquated.
We apparently want to show the world we're the beacon of freedom and treat everyone - including alleged criminals - with certain rights, such as due process. And that's what we're trying to instill in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, in practice, we do exactly the opposite.
"The Road to Guantanmo" works because Winterbottom never lets go, never eases up to allow us to feel comfortable. Watching what happens to the Tipton Three is awfully disquieting. It is shameful that we behave like this. What's more worrisome is there seems to be such a lack of outrage among Americans that we're doing this. This administration (and its blowhard allies) have done such a wonderful job convincing Americans that speaking out against their policies is tantamount to being unpatriotic.
I realize many will reject Winterbottom's film because it doesn't cast the United States in all honorable light. It shows how vicious, uncaring and brutal we are, even though our leaders continue to deny everything.
I can only hope that years from now, we will be thoroughly ashamed of how our government treated people in the war on terror, just as we now feel shame for how we treated Japanese-Americans during WWII.
"The Road to Guantanamo" is an important film. I hope now that it has an American distributor, more people will be exposed to it. I am sure the right-wing demagogues will attack it as anti-American and tell us that seeing it would be unpatriotic. (Then again, I don't need OxyContin to function daily.)
The MPAA banned the initial poster for this film because it depicted a man with his wrists tied and a burlap sack over his head and that apparently is too much for our children to see. It's quite alright expose kids to horror-movie posters, but letting them see depictions of some of the despicable acts of our government is bad?
Because of AMPAS' dumb rules, I am certain this film won't be eligible for any Oscars. (It already has been shown on TV in the UK and is available on DVD there.) But "The Road to Guantanamo" must be seen by as many Americans as possible. You watch it and wonder, where has all our decency gone?