Quite good. The Jon
Stewart movie reminds me of Alexander
Solzhenitsyn's
Gulag
Archipelago in the way that it examines what our hero, Maziar
Bahari (Played by Gael Garcia Bernal) has to go through. The Iranians
who imprison Bahari knew that the brutal methods of SAVAK
were worthless in obtaining credible confessions. The somewhat
surprising twist is that Bahari doesn't hold out 'til the bitter end,
never telling his captors what they want to hear. He does, but the
world accurately identifies his confession as worthless because it's
so obviously obtained under duress.
Very good look at
current Iranian society and the relationship between captor and
captive and the limits of what societies can do to oppress
individuals.
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