Rosewater
9/10
I
finally got a chance to check this movie Rosewater out and I'll be
damned if it wasn't amazing. It was written and directed by John
Stewart, the comedian not the Green Lantern, and is based on the true
story of a journalist named Maziar Bahari. Gael Garcia Baernal plays
Bahari in this movie and does an awesome job. I also think I am
biased towards actors that can do roles where they are alone a lot
like Ryan Reynolds in Buried and Tom Hardy in Locke.
This
all happened in 2009. Bahari is an Iranian-Canadian journalist that
was detained and beaten for 118 days because of a comedy skit. They
show up at his mothers home while he is there covering elections. The
Daily Show does a video of him that the interrogators use as
“evidence” that he is a spy.
While
in solitary he is beaten, hallucinates that he is talking to his
father and sister who suffered the same things previously, and is
taunted by his captors before using one of their perverse infatuation
with pornography against them. This movie was very intense but still
had lighter moments because when a film is 100% tense it tends to
suck or not be watchable a second time.
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