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BradWesley123’s Movie Journal- May 2021 (35 movies items)

" DVD- 2hrs. 9min. First Viewing The Mauritanian is one of the few films to accurately depict the relentlessness of torture in the "enhanced interrogation" Bush-era. There are two films here; the courtroom drama and the prison drama. The plot machinations are too basic and scattered in the first (it's a courtroom drama that has only two or three courtroom scenes, and they're quite spaced apart), and the characters are often boxed into usual genre tropes (the jaded defense attorney who grows more "

“Such a life-changing movie that forces their viewers to reflect on our USA government violating human rights by torturing innocent people, and shows characters making moral decisions after being confronted with evidence of said torture.” read more

“(OK) Deliberately obscure to justify the characters doubts (making a silent and confusing victim), so you arrive to the liberation unsatisfied. Good ol Jodie...” read more