[lit-ideas] Re: Londonistan
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:00:36 -0500
I just watched a very interesting film from HBO called "Strip Search".
Two parallel scenes:
1) setting: China, young woman, US citizen, oversea's grad student is
'arrested' by the police for no known reason. She is taken to interrogation
where she is detained and questioned by a [male] officer and subjected to a
series of degradations
2) setting: NY, 30s Arab, student, ABDUCTED by men in black SUVs, for no
known reason. He is taken to an interrogation where he is detained and
questioned by a [female] officer and subjected to a series of degradations
The interesting thing is that the dialogue is IDENTICAL in both settings
and... they start with a long intro using the China setting so that it
looks, for the first 10 minutes or so, that you are going to be watching
some kind propaganda film indicting foreign, oppressive regimes. But...
suddenly it jolts you back to NY and the exact same introduction of the
Arab man being subjected to the same kind of confusing detention.
By the time they flip back and forth a few times, it's obvious that it IS a
propaganda film, but it is actually questioning what "we" would be willing
to put up with for the sake of 'freedom'.
Overall, it's a very interesting hour of television which, if nothing else,
shows the fine line between interrogation and torture.
Paul
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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