Driver stars as the real-life researcher who struggled to publish his study of ‘extreme interrogation techniques’ in this cool, dry look at the facts
Scott Z Burns is the writer-producer who in collaboration with Steven Soderbergh has helped create a number of quirky films on conspiracist-paranoid themes, most recently the scattershot satire The Laundromat. Now he makes his feature directing debut with a more sober, downbeat and valuable docudrama about Us Senate researcher Daniel J Jones and his decade-long battle to publish the gigantic report he’d written on the CIA’s post-9/11 use of “extreme interrogation techniques” (such as waterboarding), a report impeded at every step by the agency and the White House itself.
The film does a good job at showing how the right succeeded in framing the debate in terms of wussy-liberals-are-squeamish-but-torture-gets-answers. The point of Jones’s report is that torture did not get answers. This is not...
Scott Z Burns is the writer-producer who in collaboration with Steven Soderbergh has helped create a number of quirky films on conspiracist-paranoid themes, most recently the scattershot satire The Laundromat. Now he makes his feature directing debut with a more sober, downbeat and valuable docudrama about Us Senate researcher Daniel J Jones and his decade-long battle to publish the gigantic report he’d written on the CIA’s post-9/11 use of “extreme interrogation techniques” (such as waterboarding), a report impeded at every step by the agency and the White House itself.
The film does a good job at showing how the right succeeded in framing the debate in terms of wussy-liberals-are-squeamish-but-torture-gets-answers. The point of Jones’s report is that torture did not get answers. This is not...
- 11/14/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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