Story Line:
A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant," known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?
My Review:
The movie is fair and unbiased. And I say that considering the fact that I am a Muslim. In the scenario the writer made sure to emphasize the idea of "What is right and what is wrong?" and the fact that there is a very thin line between being patriot and being traitor.
So according to the story; younger was an American Muslim who converted recently to Islam. "American not Arab" that what the director made sure to emphasize in the movie to show that it's an inside dilemma.
Besides that the movie want to deliver a thought to the viewer which is "is the U.S. government responsible for that?". Younger simply wanted the U.S. army to stop fighting someone else wars, was he out of the line? was it unreasonable to make that demand of peace? and is the government that selfish to sacrifice the lives of its people to demonstrate its position as great power by going into useless, vicious, even criminal Wars ?!
Another topic the movie raise in your mind. When a younger set off a bomb in a mall to get their attention and killed 53 persons "men. women. children", the detective came running and screaming at him when he replied so calmly that U.S. Gov. kill more than that everyday which get us to the question ((Is it okay to kill others' children as long as they aren't ours' ?))
Me as Muslim refuse what younger did, but the really big question is " What's RIGHT and What's WRONG? "
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