This documentary reminds me of two other American movies
A Few Good Men in 1992 and Nanking this year.
If Star Wars 30 years ago had a big vision for the technology in the next few centuries, then A Few Good Men Maybe it's more like a demon mirror, accurately predicting the catastrophe that will also happen in guantanamo bay more than ten years later.
Col. Nathan Jesse, played by Jack Nicholson, seems to be the incarnation of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and current VP Dick Cheney. And Code Red is exactly a counterpart of the way the CIA abuses prisoners in this film.
What A Few Good Men is limited is a narrow romanticism of Hollywood. Because there is no such thing as a big hero in the real world, Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), pointed to the vice president’s nose and said, You are under arrest, you son of a bitch.
Nanking is a movie I watched and cried over and over again movie of. The film feels a little flat in comparison. However, if you read Zhang Xinru's The Rape of Nanking, what the white paper type brings to you is exactly the sorrow and sadness that this plain narrative brings out. This is a documentary similar to Nanking to some extent, that is, in a certain corner of the world, there are a lot of "people of insight", they may deny these evidence of history, Or there is no knowledge or reflection on these histories at all. When I heard a colleague say that the prisoners of guantanamo bay "they deserve to die" in the past few days, I am grateful from the bottom of my heart for the artist's profound humanistic care in producing these historical materials.
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