"Taxi to the Dark Side"
(Credit: Thinkfilm)
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- Running time:
- 106 minutes
- Rated:
- R
- Director:
- Alex Gibney
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Official Movie Web Site:
- http://www.taxitothedarkside.com/
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Big question: How does this doc compare to Alex Gibney’s previous worthy effort, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and to the raft of Middle East docs that have recently hit theaters (including the exceptional “No End in Sight”)?
Catch it: There’s a self-righteous fury to Gibney’s film that may have been problematic if the subject matter wasn’t so important—and the evidence against the White House so persuasive. You probably already know torture is wrong, and you may know about most of the events up for discussion—and disturbingly on display—in “Taxi to the Dark Side,” but the cumulative impact of Gibney’s examination still packs a powerful punch.
Skip it: If you’re not troubled by the observation, “Two prisoners dying within a week of each other—that’s bad.”
Bottom line: Featuring interviews with policy experts, remorseful interrogators and a former detainee, the film exposes a corrupt and willfully renegade system that claims a variety of victims, including the U.S. soldiers whose lives are shattered just because they were following orders.
Bonus: Archival footage of John McCain discussing his imprisonment during the Vietnam war feels unexpectedly well-timed to the Senator’s resurgence in the Presidential race.
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