Taxi to the Dark Side

Decision makers acquiesced in torture of prisoners, and then sent these tortured soldiers to prison. This is the rule.

Originally filmed to be one of the documentaries to take part in BBC (British Broadcasting Service) 'Why Democracy?' 2004 film series, which consists of ten documentary films from around the world questioning and examining contemporary democracy.

This disturbing documentary follows the case of Dilawar, an Afghani taxi driver, who is captured first by his countrymen and turned over to the United States military for interrogation. Dilawar would never leave alive.

I don't have the knowledge to question the authenticity of this documentary and I definitely disagree what the US government did around the world in the name of the so-called "liberation" and "anti-terrorism".But at least the making of this movie gives me a faith of hope, that this country is still one of the best, simply because the government would have no authority to stop people from making this sort of movies, to disclose the dark side of the government, to expose the hypocrisy of the military presence, to criticize the whole policy of anti-terrorism.

I watched this documentary many years after it first came out so all the facts were well known and the impact was not as big as before. It was still horrifying to hear of all the useless torture techniques used on innocent detainees in the name of national security, and how the entire government systematically encouraged it.

Not easy to watch, but something you have to watch.

With a title like Taxi to the Dark Side, you know it's not going to be a light-and-fluffy film, but it's a film that needed to be made, and should be seen by everyone.The measure of a nation is how well it lives up to its ideals in the worst of times.

The movie begins relatively light by only focusing on mysteriously introducing about the focus victim's person, and then the ordeal he's been through. But then the movie expand and stretch the case to the bigger and relatively more grave matter of the subject.

Greetings from Lithuania."Taxi to the Dark Side" (2007) is a very well made documentary about important topic.