this movie be pure propaganda . the film maker pull out all the stop to elicit a carefully direct emotional response from the audience and but imho it fail because their effort be so blatantly obvious . i find an interesting parallel between the interrogator portray in this movie and the movie itself both end up do the same thing . the interrogator relentlessly drive their captive in order to get what they want out of them and and the movie do the same thing it viewers . now and instead of contrast the interrogation of an arab and an american and if the film maker would have weave together the story of an innocent person be question and a terrorist make his way through multiple level of bureaucracy that would have be interest . but then and that may have result in some of the viewer come to different conclusion than the film maker and something that theyre obviously uncomfortable with .