Blogpost 20th May 2020
#BingeWatch #Docudrama #CIA
#BingeWatch #Docudrama #CIA
The
Report (styled as “The Torture Report”) is a hard hitting - honest to a
fault - 2019 American drama film written and directed by #ScottZBurns Produced by #StevenSoderbergh, starring #AdamDriver, #AnnetteBening, #TedLevine, Michael C. Hall, Tim Blake Nelson, Corey Stoll, Maura Tierney and Jon Hamm.
The plot follows the 6 year long 6 million page longer investigation by one staffer Daniel Jones and the Senate Intelligence Committee as they probe the CIA's use of detainee torture following the September 11 attacks in the post Bush era.
The unease of the Obama administration to bring it forth, in full 7000 pages worth of it - being held to ransom by the Republicans on the floor where other biggies like Obamacare were being hotly contested - makes you realise just how tough some democracies have to fight, in order to simply remain one... even the second largest one in the world.
It covers more than a decade's worth of real-life political intrigue, exploring and compacting Jones's 6,700-page report.
It later came to become the McCain- Feinstein amendment which Obama did sign in 2015 - overturning almost a decade of unchecked uncontested and uncontained “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” conducted by an over zealous and hyper nationalist CIA.
The Report had its world premiere at the #SundanceFilmFestival on January 26, 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on November 15, 2019 by Amazon Studios, before streaming on #AmazonPrime beginning November 29, 2019.
The film is staccato, blunt and unrelenting in its narrative- as it should be when delivering a statement this emphatic and so unapologetic - flying in the face of the usual braggadocio of US military and intelligence might. Slow clap to every single stakeholder for upholding what needed to be upheld. A tiny thing called truth. And yes, the truth did out, to a fashion.
PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown asked Burns on his motivation for making the controversial 2014 report on CIA torture into a movie.
Both Burns' parents are psychologists and he found it "appalling" to learn from the Senate Intelligence Committee report, that "people had figured out a way to weaponize psychology", a profession that "exists to help people".
Burns said that he and the film's producer Steven Soderbergh, felt it reflected well on the United States that the government allowed the report to be published. Soderbergh said that he did not know "that there's another country, other than maybe Canada or the U.K.", that "would have even allowed this kind of investigation."
The plot follows the 6 year long 6 million page longer investigation by one staffer Daniel Jones and the Senate Intelligence Committee as they probe the CIA's use of detainee torture following the September 11 attacks in the post Bush era.
The unease of the Obama administration to bring it forth, in full 7000 pages worth of it - being held to ransom by the Republicans on the floor where other biggies like Obamacare were being hotly contested - makes you realise just how tough some democracies have to fight, in order to simply remain one... even the second largest one in the world.
It covers more than a decade's worth of real-life political intrigue, exploring and compacting Jones's 6,700-page report.
It later came to become the McCain- Feinstein amendment which Obama did sign in 2015 - overturning almost a decade of unchecked uncontested and uncontained “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” conducted by an over zealous and hyper nationalist CIA.
The Report had its world premiere at the #SundanceFilmFestival on January 26, 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on November 15, 2019 by Amazon Studios, before streaming on #AmazonPrime beginning November 29, 2019.
The film is staccato, blunt and unrelenting in its narrative- as it should be when delivering a statement this emphatic and so unapologetic - flying in the face of the usual braggadocio of US military and intelligence might. Slow clap to every single stakeholder for upholding what needed to be upheld. A tiny thing called truth. And yes, the truth did out, to a fashion.
PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown asked Burns on his motivation for making the controversial 2014 report on CIA torture into a movie.
Both Burns' parents are psychologists and he found it "appalling" to learn from the Senate Intelligence Committee report, that "people had figured out a way to weaponize psychology", a profession that "exists to help people".
Burns said that he and the film's producer Steven Soderbergh, felt it reflected well on the United States that the government allowed the report to be published. Soderbergh said that he did not know "that there's another country, other than maybe Canada or the U.K.", that "would have even allowed this kind of investigation."
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