I don't know why American movie makers seem always very eager to present `injustice' in other countries! Not only they do exaggerate in showing an `inhuman' and brutal way of treatment they also try to demonstrate a status of hate and chaos!! That is simply NOT TRUE!
The truth is that -especially- Americans are treated very well in foreign countries and for political reasons even better than the local people!! I don't think also that people who don't respect human rights and international law are in the position to criticise other!!
I don't want to make a political theme out of this film but this film -especially because of the great dramatic performance- just serve clichés, spread hate and a sense of insecurity! The American characters are showed very passionate, fervent and morally invulnerable (the good guys); all the others are -of coarse- the bad ones with exactly the opposite qualities. Such films suggest that there is no justice or human rights outside the US, what is absolutely silly and incredible. Actually I don't believe that the human rights are better served in the USA than in many other `third-world' countries!!
That's why I hate all these films that try to tell such kind of stories and unfortunately I can't simply separate the story from the performance - which is really very impressing and convincing- but that is the main problem. When the performance is well done then the story seems to be more credible respectively and one more prejudice is again being served.
The truth is that -especially- Americans are treated very well in foreign countries and for political reasons even better than the local people!! I don't think also that people who don't respect human rights and international law are in the position to criticise other!!
I don't want to make a political theme out of this film but this film -especially because of the great dramatic performance- just serve clichés, spread hate and a sense of insecurity! The American characters are showed very passionate, fervent and morally invulnerable (the good guys); all the others are -of coarse- the bad ones with exactly the opposite qualities. Such films suggest that there is no justice or human rights outside the US, what is absolutely silly and incredible. Actually I don't believe that the human rights are better served in the USA than in many other `third-world' countries!!
That's why I hate all these films that try to tell such kind of stories and unfortunately I can't simply separate the story from the performance - which is really very impressing and convincing- but that is the main problem. When the performance is well done then the story seems to be more credible respectively and one more prejudice is again being served.