The Report review, Culture Whisper (LFF)
Both the counter-terrorist thriller 24 and the Kathryn Bigelow movie Zero Dark Thirty are mentioned in The Report, the anti-torture political drama from writer-director Scott Z Burns. The first two, perceived to be pro-torture, were used in many people's arguments supporting what’s limply called ‘enhanced interrogation’. In order to stop terrorist attacks from happening in this post-9/11 world, agents need to put the pressure on. The ends, it appeared, justified the terrible means.
The Report reveals how sadistic and useless these interrogations were. The film follows the US Senate investigator Daniel J Jones, as he organises 6,700 pages of evidence detailing the unlawful, unethical CIA interrogations following the attacks on 11 September 2001.
