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The Report (2019)

Biography | 119 minutes
3,28 209 votes

Genre: Biography / Drama

Duration: 119 minuten

Alternative title: The Torture Report

Country: United States

Directed by: Scott Z. Burns

Stars: Adam Driver, Annette Bening and Jon Hamm

IMDb score: 7,2 (54.335)

Releasedate: 12 September 2019

The Report plot

"Truth matters"

After 9/11, Daniel Jones (Adam Driver), a Senate investigator, is tasked with leading the inspection of the CIA's interrogation techniques. After years of extensive investigation, he uncovers the horrific, immoral torture that the CIA has spent years trying to conceal. However, publishing this report turns out to be more difficult than expected. The White House and the CIA are doing everything they can to keep this highly revealing investigation behind closed doors.

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hvdriel

  • 392 messages
  • 353 votes

Not a dry talkie, but a cleverly and cunningly made American film that is an unqualified hymn to the self-cleansing capacity of American democracy, solely through the dedication and determination of 1 individual hero, and in doing so manages to escape typical American film pitfalls, such as a romantic love thread in the fabric of the main story, and with an end credits whose design made me smile.

Unsubtle? Certainly. The CIA is portrayed as the villain who, as a superpower, fights against the lonely angel in the person of Daniel Jones. The dilemma posed - is everything allowed to prevent another attack on America? - leaves no doubt in the mind of the film viewer. All sympathy quickly lies with the hero who, after years of toil, writes a report of 7,000 pages thick that of course must be kept out of the public. . It doesn't take much imagination to guess how this ends.

Praise? Certainly. All the mud that has surfaced in recent years regarding racist police actions, torture practices by the CIA, gun ownership by American citizens, etc. etc., all that mud is washed away with the fragrant bath foam of the system that made it possible to bring that mud to the surface. Thus, America creates a license for improper behavior, as long as the truth eventually comes out.

This film is a very successful example of this, which you watch with fascination and then realize that you need to rinse your mouth.

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coumi

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Couldn't really touch me, this honest but all too talky representation of what was not so long ago a sensitive subject. Clinical and distant, almost boring, maybe you have to live in the USA to feel the real affinity with the subject. All in all: where is Oliver Stone when you need him?, he would undoubtedly have created more drive in this film without highlights. An intense role by the all-rounder Driver, a mega talent of whom we will see a lot more. Mrs. Bening also has a convincing supporting role, but unfortunately good actors do not make a good film.

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blurp194

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The truth is not interesting.

Anyone with a little bit of common sense understands that torture does not really provide reliable information. But in America it is of course different, and certainly when it is all politically sensitive and in the past twenty years or so everything has been lied to in order to get the story of the politicians around. And that is also where the film fails for me - it is all a bit too tame, and where it may be exciting and interesting for an American, it all remains a bit obvious for me. Maybe also because there has already been enough in the press.

And that is actually quite a shame, because this kind of message cannot be delivered hard and often enough. All governments worldwide have lost their raison d'etre, are searching for how to proceed now that democracy is becoming increasingly difficult and troublesome. Then I see in this kind of excess a clear motive of what is needed in any case - an ethic that must be exalted above all else. As we once learned with the words 'honesty lasts the longest', for example.

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