Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary -- Taxi to the Dark Side (DVD)Directed by Alex Gibney
BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)
Winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Released in 2007), BuzzFlash strongly recommends "Taxi to the Dark Side" which is being released on DVD at the end of September.
Watch the trailer here.
Along with "No End in Sight", this is one of the many films about the Bush regimes disastrous war in Iraq that we believe is a must see.
"No End in Sight" tells the cogent story about how the Bush Administration abysmally failed at managing the Iraq occupation. It is succinct, absorbing and debunks any notion that Republicans know how to manage their way out of a paper bag, let alone a war.
There are many good documentaries on how we have compromised our stature and dignity and the safety of our soldiers and nation by engaging in torture, but "Taxi to the Dark Side" is the most compelling of them -- and most watchable.
The oldest adage of news stories, film making, fiction and non-fiction is tell your story by focusing on a personal incident. In short, we relate to the travails of individuals more than we do to dispassionate overviews.
If you have any doubt about the veracity of this old saw, think about the story of Anne Frank. Millions were killed by the Nazis, but it is the diary of one teenage girl that most captivated the world -- and it was of her thoughts and experiences before she was sent to die in a concentration camp.
So it is that "Taxi to the Dark Side" provides a riveting account of how one innocent small town Afghani taxi driver accidentally got ensnared in the Bush torture apparatus and died after just two days of "enhanced interrogation."
To those BuzzFlash readers who have been too uncomfortable to watch some of the documentaries on torture in Iraq, we highly recommend that you give "Taxi to the Dark Side" a try. Yes, there are moments that are grisly and painful, but it is a gripping documentary with a well-crafted and edited narrative. It convincingly reminds us of what we have lost in moral authority as a nation, and how the story of a taxi driver illustrates all that has gone wrong with the Bush/Cheney doctrine.
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