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A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civil...( read more 
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One of only two films I got the chance to see at the excellent Ashland Film Festival. (Outsourced being the other.) Even though I'm a fan of documentaries, I usually skip them in the theater, I absorb them better at home. And since so many of them are about difficult issues, I don't feel like paying full price to get depressed. This was a different situation, after Taxi to the Dark Side won an Oscar as best documentary, I felt I must see it as soon as possible.
Filmmaker Alex Gibney is quickly proving himself to be one of the best documentary directors around, after this and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. His next film Gonzo, about the life of Hunter S. Thompson, looks very entertaining, and takes on a much lighter subject, while also tackling some political issues.
I won't write a long review for this, because if I start writing too much, I'll probably get into some kind of political diatribe that'll leave us all upset. Taxi to the Dark Side covers in great detail the U.S.'s involvement in torture during the Iraq war. From all the photos we're all familiar with from Guantanamo Bay, to Bush's administration changing our countries torture policies. They talk to former prisoners who experienced the torture, they talk to the guys that administered the torture, all the way up to those that developed the methods used. I don't think they left a stone unturned about this issue.
After I felt sick to belong to the human race, and even worse to be a citizen of a country that believes these policies are just. These practices must stop, I believe the film proves that torture does not work. There are more effective ways to gain the necessary information, and not break the laws of the Constitution and Geneva Convention in the process. Taxi to the Dark Side, is extremely well made and informative; ultimately it is not a pleasant experience, but it is a must see.
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MCT:June 10, 2008I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.
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MCT:May 5, 2008impresionante y decepcionante., digo no tanto porque esta claro lo que esta pasando pero es innevitable sentir una sensacion de rabia con las atrocidades que se revelan una vez mas.
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MCT:May 3, 2008everyone should watch this. just a little insight into what "we" are doing to the "terrorists" we have in Guantanamo.
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MCT:April 5, 2008
I have to say, I hadn't heard of this documentary until it won the Oscar. So, when I got the chance, I saw it. This is one very real and very unnerving documentary. The story behind the capture, torture and death of this poor taxi driver is sickening and down right brutal. Its a really great documentary.
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MCT:April 4, 2008Worthy of its Oscar win, scathing documentary provokes intensely. Saddens me to think that the U.S. has sunk to this level and can no longer be considered the "good guys" in the world.
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