01
The Beginning of Slashi's Tragic Fate
One night in November 2011, the Mauritanian man Slahi was suddenly told by the local police that the Americans wanted to see him.
He instinctively felt that things were not easy, so he hurriedly deleted all the phone contacts on the grounds of changing clothes. Before leaving home, he told his mother to save him some stew.
But who would have thought that he would be gone for 8 years, and he would face endless military interrogations.
First spent five months in a Jordanian prison, then transferred to a base in Afghanistan, and then to Guantanamo prison, where he was always subjected to inhuman treatment and was interrogated for 18 hours a day.
In his words, it's like asking Charlie Sheen to name all his girlfriends, which shows how absurd it is.
At a critical moment, he found lawyer Nancy Holland and her assistant Terry Duncan to defend himself.
After a period of contact and investigation, Holland gave him a very bold suggestion - sue the US government and the president.
However, misfortunes do not come singly. The U.S. military, while facing Slashi, instructed the team headed by Lieutenant Stuart Kush to initiate a lawsuit with only one goal - to send Slashie to the execution site.
And on what basis? Slahi had been trained by a terrorist group, his brother had called him from bin Laden's cell phone, and his brother had sent him a sum of money. The conclusion is that Slashi recruited relevant personnel for the terrorist attack and once funded terrorist organizations.
What absurd logic, the so-called desire plus sin is like this.
02
Investigate the conspiracy behind
How difficult was Holland's investigation?
It was far more than what she thought was "4 years behind the government". When she took her assistant to Virginia to check the archives, she was surprised to find that all relevant archives had been smeared with a marker. Obviously, this was also instructed by the government.
Coincidentally, when Lieutenant Kush launched an investigation, he found that all the documents that could be read had been erased with the specific time. When he rushed to Guantanamo to seek the original files, he was rejected again.
When he felt more and more complicated, in addition to urging frequent lawsuits, a set of unreasonable logic was placed in front of him - the government didn't care about the truth at all, and what it wanted was to close the case as soon as possible.
This shows that it is a waste of life, and the connection with the terrorist organization must be erased immediately, and Kush is obviously unwilling to complete the task with ignorance of conscience.
When the two went to great lengths to see the documents documenting the interrogation process, they were shocked to find that the treatment Slashi suffered was simply outrageous: sleep deprivation, waterboarding, mental torture, etc., and the military gave these processes a name— - Special projects.
For Holland, she is in a time race with the government, while Kush has to choose between her future and her conscience.
This is the pattern shown in the film "The Mauritanian", a remake based on real events, a story that is both depressing and bastard.
To be honest, it's hard not to associate with the inhuman treatment that Slashi suffered. Coincidentally, the 2018 "Vice President" also disclosed the 9/11 incident. Although "Vice President" and "Mauritanian" are not the same size, the logic behind the real events is almost the same.
Dick Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the history of the United States, tried his best to confuse the public and make the public think that Iraq was the driving force behind the terrorist organization, and then launched the Iraq War and sent Saddam to the gallows.
This is simply looking for a scapegoat. A dignified head of a country can be drawn as a scapegoat. Isn't it a piece of cake for a mere peasant?
03
The human level behind the unbearable situation
Works with pure political genes, such as "Vice President" and "Mauritanian", are probably full of boring films. When watching such works, you often need to start from the character design and acting skills to find highlights. It just so happens that the drama section of this work is quite touching.
In one of the more representative scenes, Slahi was told that the interrogation would be taken over by the military intelligence department. His mentality completely collapsed, and it happened that Holland came to visit the prison.
After meeting, he found that Duncan, who was relatively more interesting, was not there, so he quickly looked around and blurted out without hesitation:
"Where is Terry?" Slashie, who was standing against the wall, became a little uneasy at this time, and when Holland communicated with him further, attacks against him also followed:
"We won the enforcement right, and the government released all the evidence against you, all the evidence, including your testimony", "Why didn't you tell us?".
He subconsciously frowned with humility and replied tentatively, "They forced me."
"Did they force you?" Holland obviously didn't have much patience to deal with his temptation at this time. She saw her eyes down in a cold communication, her tone full of routine, no longer the same as before. confidence and perseverance.
Slashie widened his eyes and grinned, his face was helpless and perfunctory, and the beard on his face looked a bit sloppy and decadent.
At this time, in his opinion, Holland could no longer give him hope, and unwillingness and resentment flooded into his heart:
"You want me to set fire to this place, but I can only sit here." He not only grinned and stared at Holland in an almost irrational attitude, but also began to bang on the table.
"Then write it down on paper, that's what paper does, write it down." Holland was still trying his best to put forward his own proposition to him out of professional consideration, but his mentality had obviously become unbalanced, and he couldn't care less at this time. Whether or not, he opened his eyes and shouted: "You have to tell me what happened, or I can't defend you!"
"Don't you understand? I don't need to tell you anything! It doesn't matter what I say!..." Slashi no longer cared about Hollander's face, and shouted and choked Hollander. Holland's patience and Sluhi's hope gradually disintegrated in this way.
At first glance, this is just a rough dialogue mixed with swear words, but it actually reflects that Slashie and Holland are under their own pressure. When their mentality gradually collapses, their professionalism and religious belief cannot be recovered.
When Holland reluctantly told Slashie that this was his daily life, Slashie sneered and said something meaningful: "Why the fuck are you here?"
It's not just Hollander's litigation philosophy that he mocks, but hope itself.
Aside from the political genes of the work itself, the ups and downs of the protagonist's mentality are quite profound in themselves, which is even more layered in contrast to the deep-seated depression. When faced with a desperate situation, the sense of emptiness that arises from the sense of despair that arises from the bottom of the heart is somewhat similar to the feeling of staring into the abyss.
And this is also the point of this kind of boring film. To analyze human nature through the fate of the protagonist, isn't the most intriguing thing about human nature itself?
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