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List Price: $28.98 Our Price: $25.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2005 DVD Release : 31 January, 2006 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | But what creates the terrorist? |
| In this film's fast paced opening scene you are shown the main character, Hassan, being kidnaped by Americans and tortured by Pakistanis. He befriends an Muslim man in his cell and then somehow ends up in a shipping crate in New Jersey where he returns to live with his friend Sayeed whom hasn't seen or heard from him for three years.
The remainder of the film is no longer broken in time and is easily followed as Hassan works with his terrorist cell to plan an attack on New York. As we viewed the movie we assumed that it would reveal "a war within" Hassan's heart and mind, that he would be torn by his commitment to terrorism and his opposing feelings towards his American friend and family that sheltered him in their home along with his hint of romantic feelings towards his friends sister. There is much drama in this film especially towards the climatic final scene but there is very little revealed about the "war within" at least within Hassan's self. Two aspects of the film could have been changed to make it more powerful. One would have been to show what had happened to him after his kidnapping. How did he survive the torture? What did he do with his rage? Did he live in Pakistan? Who did he befriend there and what was it like, all very fascinating possiblities for this film. Also he never appeared to be ambivalent about his goal despite the perfect friendship and the temptation of a beautiful young woman. There was much here to work with and the result was at too many times a bit flat and too dark to illuminate many of the questions we have about men like Hassan. |
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