Review №2

Cast: 

Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Jake Gyllenhaal and Omar Metwally.

Director: 

Gavin Hood

Synopsis:

 Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) - Egyptian-born chemical engineer, but with  Lawful Permanent Residence in the USA, mysteriously vanishes on a routine flight from South Africa to Washington. His American wife Isabella (Reese Witherspoon), in her turn, embarks on an international search for her missing husband. At the same time, a CIA analyst (Jake Gyllenhaal) arrives at a clandestine detention facility outside of the United States, where he is forced to interrogate  El-Ibrahimi using unorthodox methods.

Review:

After a terrorist bombing kills an American envoy in a foreign country. An investigation leads to an Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally).He has been living in the United States for years and who is married to an American. He is apprehended when he's on his way home. The U.S. sends him to the country where the incident occurs for interrogation which includes torture. Anwar was suspect of implication in the terrorist suicide attack. So,this situatuon shows us the vicissitudes of life  and  mean joke of fortune.

At the same time an American CIA operative observes the interrogation and is at odds whether to keep it going or to stop it. In the meantime, the man's wife raises hell to find him despite being pregnant but the person behind this refuses to help or give her any information.

 However,in the end of the film Anwar returns to the US and is reunited with his family. Freeman then leaks the details of Anwar's detention to the American press. The story is then found in the newspapers the following day by Corrine Whitman, who ordered Anwar's extraordinary rendition.

Once more story line here refers to love. Abasi's daughter Fatima has run away from home with her boyfriend Khalid. While reading a notebook that contains pictures of Khalid and his brother together, showing that they were extremely close,Fatims discovers that Khalid is doing a deed in revenge for his brother's death. Realizing that his brother met his death at the hands of her father and that Khalid is about to assassinate him, she rushes away,trying to avoid an act of terror. I can conclude that it's a vivid example of power of persuasion and religious views.

As for the perfomance, it was bright and very professional. I may assert that actors are reals masters of their craft.Most of all I was impressed by Reese Witherspoon who expose all possible human feeling and emotions.I also have to mention Meryl Streep who is an absolute bitch as Corrine Whitman, the all powerful voice of which men or women should be detained as a threat to the United States.

In coclusion I'd like to tell that this film touches many problems.It is now so well-established that the United States authorizes the practices shown in this film.I feel saddened,because.What the film documents is that we have lost faith in due process and the rule of law, and have forfeited the moral high ground. Reading some of the reviews of my classmates, I was struck by a comment by Nastya Streltsova :"A really democratic country cannot caught, torture and interrogate innocent people just because it has unchecked information about their supposed "crime" I absolutely agree with this statement.

It's very imprudent to affirm that  there is no possibility that Anwar’s phone was stolen or lost. But there are possibilities that the terror chief gave the phone out to other people to lose heat. And in the end Anwar said in the bathroom that his uncle who LIVES in Egypt have no money, so its a possibility that he could’ve accepted a free or bargain “dirty” phone from somebody and used it to call Anwar.

To sum up, this film makes me think about many issues.After watching, you may find yourself questioning the morality of “extraordinary rendition”. It is an interesting topic which the film brings up with bias. Yet ultimately, the film is not as shocking or important as it tries to be. It feels more like a couple hours of popcorn political intrigue and there is certainly enough good here to make it worth a look.