Taxi to the Dark Side

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Category: 15
All Genres: Documentary
Release Year: 2007
Country: USA
Runtime: 106
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Alex Gibney
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:

There's always a plan "B"

Writing by: Alex Gibney - (written by)

Produced by: Sidney Blumenthal - executive producer
Martin Fisher - co-producer
Blair Foster - co-producer
Alex Gibney - producer
Don Glascoff - executive producer
Robert Johnson - executive producer
Sloane Klevin - co-producer
Eva Orner - producer
Susannah Shipman - producer
Jedd Wider - executive producer
Todd Wider - executive producer

Cast: Alex Gibney - Narrator (voice)
Brian Keith Allen - U.S. War Soldier
Moazzam Begg - Himself - Torture victim (as Moazzam Beg)
Willie Brand - Himself - Military police
George W. Bush - Himself (archive footage)
Dick Cheney - Himself (archive footage)
Jack Cloonan - Himself - former FBI agent
Damien Corsetti - Himself - Military interrogator
Thomas Curtis - Himself - Sergeant, military police
Greg D'Agostino - Soldier
Carlotta Gall - Herself, New York Times reporter

Music: Ivor Guest
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Plot Outline: An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
Plot: Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.S. policy toward suspects in the war on terror. Soldiers, their attorneys, one released detainee, U.S. Attorney John Yoo, news footage and photos tell a story of abuse at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. From Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzalez came unwritten orders to use any means necessary. The CIA and soldiers with little training used sleep deprivation, sexual assault, stress positions, waterboarding, dogs and other terror tactics to seek information from detainees. Many speakers lament the loss of American ideals in pursuit of security.

Movie Quotes: Gaius Octavian: You heard what Servilia said, she wants you to run away.
Atia of the Julii: More fool her, she'll have to find me first.
Gaius Octavian: She will find you; you have no talent for hiding.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Towards the end of the credits the text says "This movie was made without any support from the Norwegian Film Fund".

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: After the death of Caesar the slave Posca becomes a freedman and starts working for Mark Antony. However, under the Roman code of patronage freedmen remained in service with their former master and subsequent heir. So Posca should have started working for Octavian, not Mark Antony.

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:
When Servilia (Lindsay Duncan) agrees with the other conspirators to go into talks with the Julii, Brutus (Tobias Menzies) indignantly answers "You too, mother?" This is a direct reference to Julius Caesar's famous last line "You too, Brutus?", which, according to some historians and William Shakespeare, was spoken when he saw Brutus among his killers. This may also have been what Caesar wanted to say in the previous episode "Kalends of February" (Brutus mentioned Caesar tried to speak), but wasn't able to.