‘Catch a Fire’ is incendiary - waterboarding, Prisoners are held indefinitely...

[helderheid]

Catch a Fire’ is incendiary

Noyce creates a vivid, riveting story that resonates with today’s politics

REVIEW
By John Hartl
Film critic
MSNBC
Updated: 9:56 p.m. CT Oct 25, 2006

A form of waterboarding is approved for government use. Prisoners are held indefinitely. A tortured prisoner dies of a “weak heart.” His friend, whose wife is tortured too, is so appalled that he joins a resistance movement.

That’s the fact-based plot of the riveting new drama, “Catch a Fire.” But the movie is not set in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay. It takes place in South Africa in the 1980s, during the end of the apartheid years, around the same time then-Congressman Dick Cheney was voting against the release of Nelson Mandela and the recognition of the African National Congress.

It’s the story of one of Mandela’s prisonmates, Patrick Chamusso, who was brutalized and suspected of terrorism long before he joined the resistance. The early scenes dramatize the daily humiliations inflicted on black men who didn’t want to be “Uncle Toms” but are too frightened to fight back.

After a terrorist bombing at the Secunda oil refinery, Chamusso is picked up by the police, who are less effective with physical torture than they are at threatening his family. Eventually he tells them a story he thinks they want to hear.

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[leftchick]

1. you can view the trailer here.....

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809233829/trailer

It looks excellent. :)

[helderheid]

2. I saw the trailer before seeing "Man of the Year" - I am really looking forward

to seeing it!

[Blackhatjack]

3. Shows how evil repeats itself, and we need to be vigilant to oppose it

People are prone to say, this was so bad we will never let it happen again. However, that is just not true. THe history books are filled with examples of how with the passage of time many of the same kinds of evil crop up again and again, and 'good people' choose not to act and say 'we did not know --it will never happen again."

We can learn a lot by studying the history of atrocities. We can learn more by studying the environments that allowed atrocities to happen, and how they were eventually exposed.

I have no doubt that eventually the story of this 'war' will be told, and Americans everywhere will be embarrassed and outraged to find out what has been done in their name.... and then it will happen. Leaders will step forward and say..."we will remember, and it will never happen again."

Until the next time....

[helderheid]

4. wash, rinse, repeat

[grizmaster]

5. is the film out yet?