I watched Rendition expecting the usual action film with no meaning and no soul. I was wrong and I know that is the very reason that many will hate the film...it has a soul! For those who will just see it as a lambasting of the American system of Rendition have missed the point entirely. In the eyes of these Americans and their fellow torturers in the Rendition camps you could read fear, uncertainty and a lack of clear direction.
One of the catch phrases in the movie that got us all laughing says, 'Beat your wife every morning, if you don't know why, she does'.
It is simply a case of the dog chasing its tail. The Islamic fundamentalists accuse the US of economic, political and religious interference and also torture. They therefore engage in terrorist attacks which kill more of their own people...innocent people than they do Americans or their cohorts. America sees this as an excuse to further oppress them so as to maintain its hold as a superpower. Do you see where this is going?
I believe Rendition captures this fully and gives a spirit and touch to the cold facts we know. Emotions such as the one of the suicide bomber and his girlfriend; the father of the girlfriend who is torturer-in-chief and yet clearly resents himself; the Americans who wish they could do something and yet find that it is really beyond their strength in their world of 'happiness' and 'success'.
Both sides are not just wrong...they are lost!
One of the catch phrases in the movie that got us all laughing says, 'Beat your wife every morning, if you don't know why, she does'.
It is simply a case of the dog chasing its tail. The Islamic fundamentalists accuse the US of economic, political and religious interference and also torture. They therefore engage in terrorist attacks which kill more of their own people...innocent people than they do Americans or their cohorts. America sees this as an excuse to further oppress them so as to maintain its hold as a superpower. Do you see where this is going?
I believe Rendition captures this fully and gives a spirit and touch to the cold facts we know. Emotions such as the one of the suicide bomber and his girlfriend; the father of the girlfriend who is torturer-in-chief and yet clearly resents himself; the Americans who wish they could do something and yet find that it is really beyond their strength in their world of 'happiness' and 'success'.
Both sides are not just wrong...they are lost!
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Great work.
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