Fridae

The most remarkable movie to open this week is The Road to
Guantanamo, a truly bold and important film that exposes the
lies that America tells the world about its treatment of its prisoners
in Guantanamo Bay. This re-enactment of true-life accounts will
open your eyes to the injustices committed by the Bush administration.
It also helps you understand why it is so important to join the
international chorus of voices demanding the closure of Guantanamo
camps.

As political-aware LGBTs who believe in the basic human rights
for all, you must not miss this film.

The excellent British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, in collaboration
with Mat Whitecross, chronicle the true lives of three innocent
British men who go to Afghanistan to help innocent civilians injured
in the bombings by American soldiers. There, the three are suddenly
arrested by American soldiers, who insist that they are Taliban
terrorists just because they have dark skins and Muslim names.

The men are sent to prison in Guantanamo Bay, where they are repeatedly
tortured in the most inhuman way and forced to confess to ridiculous
crimes. In one scene, a female interrogator shows them a grainy
footage of an Osama Bin Laden rally and insists she can see the
three men sitting in the crowd. The men were eventually released
after the British government was able to prove their innocence.

The film splices dramatic re-enactment with newspaper clippings
and actual interviews of the three men. The result is a provocative
and thrilling hybrid of a film that compels and appalls you in equal
measures. Don't miss this one. We mean it.