The Mauritanian (2021)
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.
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It’s how I felt about “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012), which, unlike “The Mauritanian,” didn’t even take much of a moral position on the torture we were witnessing.
Both films exist as something of a rejoinder to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty , a film that wasn’t nearly as skeptical about American anti-terrorism policies.
“The Mauritanian,” in other words, joins 2019’s “The Report” in reviving a dormant subgenre of war-on-terror thrillers that, with one brilliant exception (“Zero Dark Thirty”), has produced little more than a series of bland, hopelessly dated exercises in high-minded hand wringing.
“The Mauritanian” is a tough movie, and not an easy one to enjoy, marking the polar opposite of the gung-ho fight-terrorism-at-any-cost attitude of post-9/11 productions such as “24” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” in which the ends justify the means.
We’ve seen these stories before in Zero Dark Thirty , documentaries such as Ghosts of Abu Ghraib , or the aforementioned The Report .
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