Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by dave c (A) on November 06, 2006 at 02:51:50

I have just been to a preview screening of this film.
Using a similar mix of interviews, archive footage and acted scenes to Flags Of Our Fathers, TRTG follows a group of British 20 somethings to Pakistan for a wedding and across the border (still open at the time) to Afghanistan. The are rounded up and handed to the Americans. There, its a descent into the living hell of what could only remind me of Orwell's prediction for the future of humanity.
I am not going to spoil the film with details or the "plot". According to your politics you may believe all or little of their facts. Most of it is totally uncheckable.
The question that hangs over the film and whatever discussions you like to have afterwards (I know I do) is, and this is especially true if you are an American, a country founded on Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, is why your government has lied so consistantly for years. Now as they admit all the allegations against them and have only the defence that they don't add up to torture, why do they not trust their own people?
This film has to be considered beyond the boundaries of the screen. It is riveting, shocking and will appall you, and well it should. This is a film with a point of view and a very strong film at that.
You owe it to yourself and your children to see it.
If you think I sound a bit over the top, go and see it and then ask yourself if a government could possibly have done anything more to increase recruitment to radical Islam and why that is being done in the name of democracy. Why THEY want YOU afraid and why they want to bring on the terrorism they claim to fight.
This film is no more pointed than Flags but that's not how it is portrayed. This is consciousness raising in a 60s sense. It will make your brain buzz. Don't waste a chance to see it.