Friday, June 20, 2008

Taxi on the Dark Side

Believe me and my ignorance when I say I had never heard of this one. I was watching the 9’o clock news on NDTV 24X7 when the ticker below kept flashing Coming up: Taxi on the Dark Side, I decided to watch this instead of Channel [V] Get Gorgeous! (Yes…guilty). There is no doubt that from the minute it starts it involves you and all your concentration.

Taxi on the Dark Side is a one hour documentary about the violent interrogation techniques used by the US forces/Bush administration on ‘suspected terrorists’ in Afghanistan

Maybe it is the subject itself-of complete disrespect of a fellow being’s dignity, or the gripping yet compassionate way that it is made, or just plain shock value - it works.

The idea that such horrors of interrogation techniques exist and especially that women can be a party to them was maybe the saddest feeling I took away from it. That there is such injustice and that it prevails without the necessary opposite reaction scares me.

It has been over 24 hours that I have seen it and I have spoken to 3 people about it and argued with one for over an hour about the need for the existence of religion. It is what great productions represent, they create such an impact that people discuss it for days after.

You must watch it. It will awaken all your sense of humanity and fairness which is now lost in your very small and selfish life.

Just found out – it is the 2008 Oscar winner for Best Documentary.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks! please write more......

Idyll Mind said...

I have been postponing watching it because someone told me it is difficult to watch. but may be now i will.

Vagabond said...

"women can be a party to them"

Aren't you stereotyping women otherwise? She-devils - the lot of them!


Please write more!

Idyll Mind said...

where is part 2 of our aunt-niece monkey story?
I am feeling attention deprived.
:( and please blog no?

i will buy you rolls.