— by BEV QUESTAD — How long do you keep a prisoner without charge or evidence? How strenuously can you interrogate, encourage, and even torture a prisoner to get a confession? At what point will a person say anything? Two months after planes flew into the World Trade Center Towers, the m[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kevin Macdonald’
Review: The Mauritanian
— by RON WILKINSON — Two thought patterns run through the minds of USA security personnel at Guantanamo as they interrogate a suspected key player in the World Trace Center attacks. The first is that if he did not do the crime of which he is accused, he would have done it if he had [&hel[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘Life in a Day’
— by KYLA DREWETTE — Last summer, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and producer Ridley Scott received 80,000 different video submissions from people all over the world as part of their latest project to document a single day in history — July 24, 2010. Macdonald and Scott hav[...]