SPOILER ALERT for movie Unthinkable
With all this talk of honour killings, I went out and rented the movie "Unthinkable" starring Samuel L. Jackson and Carrie-Anne Moss. You really should watch it yourself, but the plot in a nutshell is that a "loyal" American and devoted Islamic has planted three nuclear bombs in separate American cities set to go off on Friday, but allows himself to be caught supposedly sometime before Tuesday. The military brings in a "specialist of interrogation", aka torturer, otherwise known as "H", who uses physical and psychological torture methods (removing finger nails, waterboarding, electric shock, sleep deprivation, emotional stress, etc.) in an effort to get the man to confess the locations of the bomb. The man defies all these methods, often appearing to break, and in some cases actually breaking under the strain, but even that is part of his plan. In desperation, the interrogators bring in his wife which "H" kills in front of the man in frustration. As a last resort, they bring in the man's children and threaten to torture them, eventually leading to the man confessing the location of the three bombs. "H" seems set on torturing them anyway believing that there is a fourth bomb, but before he can justify it the FBI agent Brody played by Moss and one of "H"'s assistants whisk them out of there. The pivotal moment comes when "H" proves the existence of a fourth nuclear bomb and puts it to Brody to allow or disallow him to torture the children in order to save the millions of innocent people threatened by the bomb.
The movie deals with many thought-provoking, and disturbing issues that really force you to determine where you stand on morality. Feel free to vote anonymously without commenting or go ahead and justify your choice. Also feel free to disregard this thread entirely...it's not a choice many of us would be forced to make.
I didn't post this in politics because I think it deals with many issues, only a small part of which are political. And I wanted a more diverse group.
With all this talk of honour killings, I went out and rented the movie "Unthinkable" starring Samuel L. Jackson and Carrie-Anne Moss. You really should watch it yourself, but the plot in a nutshell is that a "loyal" American and devoted Islamic has planted three nuclear bombs in separate American cities set to go off on Friday, but allows himself to be caught supposedly sometime before Tuesday. The military brings in a "specialist of interrogation", aka torturer, otherwise known as "H", who uses physical and psychological torture methods (removing finger nails, waterboarding, electric shock, sleep deprivation, emotional stress, etc.) in an effort to get the man to confess the locations of the bomb. The man defies all these methods, often appearing to break, and in some cases actually breaking under the strain, but even that is part of his plan. In desperation, the interrogators bring in his wife which "H" kills in front of the man in frustration. As a last resort, they bring in the man's children and threaten to torture them, eventually leading to the man confessing the location of the three bombs. "H" seems set on torturing them anyway believing that there is a fourth bomb, but before he can justify it the FBI agent Brody played by Moss and one of "H"'s assistants whisk them out of there. The pivotal moment comes when "H" proves the existence of a fourth nuclear bomb and puts it to Brody to allow or disallow him to torture the children in order to save the millions of innocent people threatened by the bomb.
The movie deals with many thought-provoking, and disturbing issues that really force you to determine where you stand on morality. Feel free to vote anonymously without commenting or go ahead and justify your choice. Also feel free to disregard this thread entirely...it's not a choice many of us would be forced to make.
I didn't post this in politics because I think it deals with many issues, only a small part of which are political. And I wanted a more diverse group.
