Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

Réalisateur:

Alex Gibney

Scénariste (WGA):

Alex Gibney (written by)

Release Date:

13 juin 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002. |

Plot Keywords:

Military | Human Rights | Torture | Afghanistan

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

Blood from a Turnip

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Ensemble

Alex Gibney	...	Narrator (voice)
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Brian Keith Allen	...	U.S. War Soldier
Moazzam Begg	...	Himself - Torture victim (as Moazzam Beg)
Willie Brand	...	Himself - Military police
George W. Bush	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dick Cheney	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jack Cloonan	...	Himself - former FBI agent
Damien Corsetti	...	Himself - Military interrogator
Thomas Curtis	...	Himself - Sergeant, military police
Greg D'Agostino	...	Soldier
Carlotta Gall	...	Herself, New York Times reporter
Tim Golden	...	Himself - New York Times reporter
Gita Gutierrez	...	Herself - Attorney
Scott Horton	...	Himself - President of the International League for Human Rights
John Hutson	...	Himself - Rear admiral, retired
Maan Kaassamani	...	Detainee
Eric Lahammer	...	Himself - Military interrogator
Carl Levin	...	Himself - Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee
Alfred W. McCoy	...	Himself - Professor of political history
Alberto J. Mora	...	Himself - General Counsel of the US Navy, retired
Anthony Morden	...	Himself - Sergeant, military police
Karyn Plonsky	...	Soldier
Jack Reed	...	Himself - Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee (archive footage)
Clive Stafford Smith	...	Himself, lawyer
Lawrence Wilkerson	...	Himself - US Army colonel, retired
Tom Wilner	...	Himself - Attorney
John Yoo	...	Himself - US Department of Justice

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Un taxi pour l'enfer (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for disturbing images, and content involving torture and graphic nudity.

Durée:

106 min | Finland:53 min (TV)

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

USA:R | Argentina:13 | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Ontario) | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:R (British Columbia)

Company:

Jigsaw Productions

Connexions De Film:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2008-02-23)" (2008)

Blood from a Turnip

Yep, it is another one of those Iraq and Afghanistan documentaries. I know the burnout rate is high on these, which is probably why I almost did not bother, but nothing else was showing. Man, was I happy I saw this! It has rekindled my hate for the Bush administration, which had turned to apathy over the last year. This tells the story of an Afghani taxi driver that is mistakenly picked up as a Taliban supporter, but before they find out he was innocent, he has been beaten to death by his American torturers.

This film has interviews from all of the guards that were responsible, JAG officers, FBI people, CIA agents on the ground etc. And you see that all of the blame lies with Ashcroft and the Bushies, who gave one vague order after another that they wanted confessions and they wanted them quickly, with a wink and a nod about what kind of methods to use. So you have these frustrated high school drop-outs presiding over these people thousands of miles from anywhere, and they won't confess. So, beatings and humiliations follow. And when the crap comes out, the Bush administration passes a bill that absolves all higher-ups from any responsibility and they start to bust the enlisted men and women, who were following orders. Pathetic. Of course, we also find out that over 95% of the prisoners being held, were captured by Pakistanis and Northern Alliance people, WHO were paid by the US government for each person they turned over, guilty or not guilty. And you wonder why meaningful confessions were so hard to come by. It reminds me of the scene from Full Metal Jacket, where the psycho army guy shoots the Vietnamese farmers from his helicopter. He says the ones that run are VC, the ones that don't run are well trained VC. Very tragic.