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(drama, thriller)
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
actors:
| Omar Metwally | as Anwar El-Ibrahimi |
| Reese Witherspoon | as Isabella Fields El-Ibrahimi |
| Aramis Knight | as Jeremy El-Ibrahimi |
| Rosie Malek-Yonan | as Nuru El-Ibrahimi |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | as Douglas Freeman |
| Moa Khouas | as Khalid |
| Zineb Oukach | as Fatima Fawal |
| Yigal Naor | as Abasi Fawal |
| Laila Mrabti | as Lina Fawal |
| David Fabrizio | as William Dixon |
| Mounir Margoum | as Rani |
| Driss Roukhe | as Bahi |
| J.K. Simmons | as Lee Mayer |
| Meryl Streep | as Corrine Whitman |
| Bob Gunton | as Lars Whitman |
Gavin Hood
rating:6.60
In this day and age in which almost all other news submarine imply
of discussions, the images of Abu Ghraib, or tales of forced
detentions at Guantanamo Bay, Gavin Hood "Rendition" is almost as
up-to-the-minute and timely as ever a film is likely to come out of
entertainment of the major factories in Hollywood. It is not, by any stretch of the imagination
, a perfect film, but neither merit
caterwauling opprobrium it has received at the hands of the critics
across the ideological and political spectrum.
The term "Rendition" refers to the ability of the CIA to detain any
individuals suspected of links to terrorists, and then to beat them away in
secrets to a foreign country to interrogate and torture by
an indefinite period of time, all without due process of law.
Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian man who has lived for twenty years in
the United States. He has an American wife, a young woman and a newborn son
on the road. It seems a very unlikely candidate for a terrorist, however, a
day, without warning or explanation, Anwar is seized and taken to an unknown location
, where he is subjected to brutal torture, until
admitted his involvement in a terrorist organization that Anwar claims
not know anything about.
On the negative side, "Rendition" occasionally fails in its
storytelling skills, often biting off a bit more than it can chew in terms
of plot and character. The apparent focal point is
Douglas Freeman, a rookie CIA agent who takes note
Anwar "questioning" at the hands of Egyptian officials.
The problem is that, as conceived by writer Kelley sensible and
enacted by Jake Gyllenhaal, Freeman seems too naive for a "Boy Scout" to make a very plausible
agent, and he was not da screen
time it needs to fully develop as a character. We know little about him at the beginning
and even less, it seems, in the end. The "going through the motions" but
we learn very little about the man inside. Therefore, without strong
center of gravity to hold it all together, the film is occasionally
as if coming apart at the seams, with elements of history flying off in all
directions. A similar problem occurs with Anwar
distraught wife, played by Reese Witherspoon, a woman who never get to know much about
apart from what we see on the surface. And Gyllenhaal
Witherspoon have proved to be fine players
under other circumstances, but here are hemmed in by restrictive
a script that rarely allows them to go beyond a single recurring note in their
Performances.
What makes the "delivery" ultimately a powerful film, however, is the
the extreme seriousness of the matter and the manner in which two running
plot lines in an elegant fit perfectly in another movie
closing stretches. You can do a little more
contrived story that might have liked on this subject, but
hey, this is Hollywood, after all, and the film has to pay some deference to the expectations
mass audience if it is to get himself
green-lit, much less see the light of day as a finished project.
Two of the shows are particularly convincing in the film
: Omar Metwally who makes palpable the terror of a man trapped in a
real life Kafkaesque nightmare from which no can wake up, and Yigal Naor
makes a surprisingly complex nature of head of the
interrogator / torturer. Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin and Peter Sarsgaard
also make their marks in smaller roles. Special mention should also be
of the warm and rich hued cinematography of Dion Beebe. The film
issues too? Probably. Is
stack the deck in favor of victims of torture and against the misrule
forces? Most definitely. (One wonders how the film is played
Anwar if you really were a terrorist). However, the film has the courage to tread
the controversial field. It is not afraid to ask questions or Dicey
risk the disapproval of some of the policy positions it adopts. This
openly reflects on the question of what makes a country clinging to its
hard-won principle of "civil liberties for all" in the face of
terrorism and fear. And how much value has to have
for people of good will to finally stand up and say "enough is enough", even at the risk of being
mark of appeasing the terrorists and unpatriotic by the
power? (The film does not in any way deny the reality of
extreme Islamic terrorism).
Therefore, to reject the "delivery" of the hand would be to allow the perfect
to be the enemy of the good. "Rendition" can not be perfect, but it is
well, and has something important to say about the world we live in
. And that alone makes it much worth seeing.
I liked this movie. I saw a packed house
Toronto International Film Festival the day after the gala opener
should have gone over well. The director, Gavin Hood was supposed to be
present for today the selection, but unfortunately her twins were born just hours before
, so there was a jet on a flight back. '2 Birthings in 24 hours
the way it is joked about it.
Rendition refers to "extraordinary Renditions" - a term that
suspected terrorists in U.S. can be sent without the consent of their parents' legal
nations, to prisons abroad for interrogation and detention
.
It's pretty predictable - innocent Egyptian-American
man wrongly accused of being a terrorist "disappeared" while en route from South Africa to
Washingon DC. He is sent abroad, while women in the home (Reese Witherspoon
) struggle to find him and free him. But what makes this film special
are some good options in the narrative: 1) a human touch-
story of what is happening on the site where a suicide bomber detonated bombs, 2) the
humanity of a CIA agent trying to understand and be honest with
what is really happening, and 3) the chronology of the narrative
that makes it a tight, tense story that moves and pulls to the right moments.
Ah - relief! And a mix of emotions that swirl around the story as
struggle to end one.
All-around to act with Meryl Streep as a standout Vixen.
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