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Weirdly enough, the film isn’t much of an upper, as films go. The last third is especially hard going, when Mohamedou s amiable interviewers at Guantanamo give up, having got nowhere despite plying him with cake and tea, and cede the ground to the muscle men: army guys who know how to tear secrets from unwilling bodies. The torture scenes do a noble job of communicating quite how appallingly prisoners were treated by US authorities who should have known better.
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If the idea of being kidnapped and incarcerated for 14 years without being charged of any crime isn’t terrifying enough, imagine being held on an island hundreds of miles from home in a facility that epitomises horrible human rights violations.
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The Mauritanian is the true-life story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a detainee at the infamous American naval base Guantanamo Bay. Slahi had been on the American government’s radar for allegedly helping recruit hijackers involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks. In a post 9/11 world, every contact of a suspect became a suspect. The US government and its agencies were determined that “someone” should pay for that tragedy. Slahi was one such “someone”.