If It’s About Torture, It’s Gotta Be About America

“It was always going to be paramount, ” he says, “It’s at the very heart of the public debate surrounding the legalities of extraordinary rendition and the way what America calls ‘enhanced interrogation’ crosses into full blown torture. We researched as much as possible how the CIA use specific techniques of psychological manipulation so that when we came to do the interrogation scenes there would be a real air of authenticity. For me it had to be as explicit and as unpleasant as possible.”

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