The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) 8/10
Based on a true story, Michael Winterbottom’s quasi-documentary film is probably the most socially relevant film of 2006, and one of the best. Intercutting interviews with three people who were wrongly detained at Guantanamo with fictional reenactment, the film is both harrowing and wrenching, a powerful and searing indictment of American foreign policy. Even the most strident defender of Guantanamo will find it hard to defend the continual existence of the base. Its only flaw may well be that it is too one-sided in its tone, but the story is so riveting that it demands to be seen.
“It is nonetheless a wrenching and dismaying account of cruelty and bureaucratic indifference, a graphic tour of a place many citizens of Western democracies would prefer not to think about.”- NY Times
“For that, however, it remains an effective polemic, and if its argument is flawed, then at least it’s an argument worth making.” - Vaux
