The Report
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Report |
| Original title | The Report |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Scott Z. Burns |
| script | Scott Z. Burns |
| production | Scott Z. Burns, Jennifer Fox , Danny Gabai , Eddy Moretti , Kerry Orent , Steven Soderbergh , Michael Sugar |
| music | David Wingo |
| camera | Eigil Bryld |
| cut | Greg O'Bryant |
| occupation | |
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The Report is a film drama directed by Scott Z. Burns that premiered in January 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival and was released in US cinemas on November 15, 2019. The film is about the extreme interrogation techniques used by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks and Daniel Jones' involvement in their exposure. The film title refers to the CIA torture report released in 2014.
action
Senate employee Daniel Jones is given the daunting task of conducting an internal investigation into the CIA's detention and interrogation practices. He and his employees are given an office in the basement of a building. After analyzing the vast amount of evidence, investigating case after case, he learns of the " advanced interrogation techniques" used by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks, which have proven to be extremely brutal, immoral and ineffective. like waterboarding , chaining prisoners together, positioning them in "stressful positions" and loud heavy metal music that should keep them awake . His superior, Senator Dianne Feinstein , repeatedly confronts not only CIA Director John O. Brennan with the results, but also Barack Obama's chief of staff Denis McDonough .
The report also focuses on the psychologist Dr. Jim Mitchell , who ran the CIA's interrogation program, even though he had never conducted an interrogation before. Mitchell worked for a private contractor that was given a budget of $ 80 million to get the prisoners to tell the truth. Intuitively, he started from the sadistic assumption that the more pain, the more success you will achieve in the interrogation.
Jones spends six years digging through mountains of papers looking for the truth about what the CIA did and why. After writing a 7,000-page report and 400-page executive summary, he and the Senate Intelligence Committee want to release the results of his investigation, but the CIA and the White House are working hard to prevent the truth from being exposed comes. Jones fights for the report to be made available to the public even if a lawyer friend fears prosecution for treason.
production
Staff and cast
“These are guys you wish you could sit in some government basement with a strong moral compass. That impressed me because it is easy to lose trust in institutions. "
Scott Z. Burns directed and wrote the screenplay. Vice Studios produced and funded the project. In December 2014, the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published a more than 500-page report detailing the interrogation tactics used on detainees after September 11th. Former FBI employee Daniel Jones , a senior member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, and former CIA employee Alissa Starzak, wrote a 6,700-page report that exposed the torture of prisoners by the CIA, including methods such as waterboarding, Hypothermia, prolonged isolation, sensory deprivation, and "rectal rehydration". They concluded that torturing detainees did not yield any useful information. The investigation lasted more than six years and found that the torture committed by the CIA was far more brutal than the agency had told the Bush administration or Congress. Today Jones is President of Penn Quarter Group, a Washington-based research investigation advisory.
In April 2018, the cast of Annette Bening , Adam Driver and Jon Hamm was announced. Bening took on the role of Senator Dianne Feinstein , Driver plays her colleague Daniel Jones. CIA Director John Brennan is played by Ted Levine , while Barack Obama's chief of staff Denis McDonough is played by Jon Hamm. Douglas Hodge plays the psychologist Dr. Jim Mitchell, who ran the CIA's interrogation program. Tim Blake Nelson took on the role of a CIA medical officer. Corey Stoll plays Jones' attorney, Cyrus Clifford, who advises him on potential criminal prosecution he may face for the publication of classified documents. Dominic Fumusa plays the former CIA director George Tenet , Fajer Kaisi the former FBI agent Ali Soufan, John Rothman the lawyer Sheldon Whitehouse and Ian Blackman the former CIA employee Cofer Black, who was involved in the fight against terrorism under George W. Bush.
Film music and publication
The score was composed by David Wingo . The soundtrack, which comprises a total of 37 pieces of music, was released for download on November 15, 2019 by Lakeshore Records.
The film was premiered on January 26, 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival . There the Amazon Studios secured the worldwide rights to the film. A first trailer was presented in August 2019. In September 2019 the film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Special Presentations. In the US, the film is scheduled to hit cinemas on September 27, 2019. At the end of September and beginning of October 2019 it will be shown at the Zurich Film Festival , where it will celebrate its premiere in German-speaking countries, and at the beginning of October 2019 at the London Film Festival , also in October 2019 at the Film Festival Cologne . It was released in German cinemas on November 7, 2019.
The movie poster shows The Torture Report with the word Torture crossed out in red. The film was originally supposed to come out under the title The Torture Report .
reception
Reviews
So far, the film has won over 82 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics and received an average rating of 7.2 out of a possible 10 points.
Owen Gleiberman of Variety says Scott Z. Burns' film is not a left-liberal homily. Rather, The Report unfolds in the world of realpolitik, in which a man like Daniel Jones works from a purity that the country needs, but at the same time cannot always afford.
Collider's Matt Goldberg says Burns has the facts on his side and a story that must be told and retold so the incidents don't happen again, especially since the US has a cruel president who condones torture and whom the people support Applaud rallies for such statements. It was morally repugnant, tactically inefficient and strategically damaging to national security that the United States tortured people, and the film paints a powerful picture of why it should never be forgotten, said Goldberg.
In her review for Filmdienst , Silvia Bahl writes that Adam Driver , in his role as Daniel Jones, does not become the carrier of the film through an exhibited masculinity , but through a visible dismay and his looks at the screens, which make up a large part of the film, be an anchor point of ethical doubt and moral integrity. Bahl sums up: “ Fake news and the increasing privilege of affects over reflection and dialogue have not only been a threat to democracy since the presidency of Donald Trump . The Report makes this abundantly clear. In return, the film formulates a plea for a new political reason that does not give up its commitment to the truth. "
Lida Bach from filmrezension.de has the following view of “The Report”: “In places, Scott Z. Burns' second directorial work is as exhaustive as the eponymous report by the main character (excellent: Adam Driver), but in the end the sober staging benefits from a dramatic one Reluctance, which is just as rare in exposure thrillers as the focus on factual truthfulness. "
Recommendation for teaching use
The online portal kinofenster.de recommends the film from the 11th grade onwards in the subjects of politics, ethics, English, German and social studies / social studies and , together with Official Secrets , offers additional material on work in the series Time of Revelations - Current Political Thriller .
Awards (selection)
Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Awards 2019
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress ( Annette Bening )
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Annette Bening)
São Paulo International Film Festival 2019
- Nomination in the New Directors Competition ( Scott Z. Burns )
Web links
- The report in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The report in the program of the Sundance Film Festival (English)
- The Report - Teaser Trailer from Amazon Prime Video on YouTube (Video, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for The Report . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 194542 / K).
- ↑ The Sundance Film Festival 2019 is so political. In: BR24 Kultur, January 29, 2019.
- Jump up ↑ Director Kathryn Bigelow and Scott Z. Burns Talk About Their New Film 'Last Days'. In: vice.com, December 22, 2014.
- ↑ Mike Mudano: Annette Benning, Jon Hamm, Adam Driver, More to Star in CIA Drama 'The Torture Report'. In: pastemagazine.com, April 5, 2018.
- ↑ Dave McNary: Annette Bening, Adam Driver, Jon Hamm in Talks for CIA Drama 'Torture Report'. In: Variety, April 4, 2018.
- ↑ Sharon Waxman: In 'The Report', Government Heroes Expose America's Torture After 9/11. In: thewrap.com, January 26, 2019.
- ^ David Wingo Scoring Scott Z. Burns' 'The Report'. In: filmmusicreporter.com, December 10, 2018.
- ↑ 'The Report' soundtrack details. In: filmmusicreporter.com, November 6, 2019.
- ↑ Amazon Picks Up CIA Torture Investigation Film 'The Report'. In: The New York Times, January 28, 2019.
- ↑ http://collider.com/the-report-trailer-adam-driver/
- ↑ Kate Erbland: TIFF Reveals First Slate of 2019 Films, Including 'Joker,' 'Uncut Gems,' 'Knives Out,' and More. In: indiewire.com. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
- ↑ "Joker", "Marriage Story", "Le Mans '66" and other highlights for the 15th ZFF confirmed. In: outnow.ch. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ↑ 63rd BFI London Film Festival program announced. In: bfi.org.uk, August 29, 2019.
- ^ Film Festival Cologne: Festival program. In: filmfestival.cologne. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/260709/bilder/?cmediafile=21653740
- ↑ https://wessels-filmkritik.com/2019/11/02/the-report/
- ^ The Report. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ^ Owen Gleiberman: Sundance Film Review: 'The Report'. In: Variety, January 26, 2019.
- ^ Matt Goldberg, 'The Report' Review: A Riveting Investigative Drama on the CIA's Torture Program. In: collider.com, January 26, 2019.
- ^ Silvia Bahl: The Report. In: Filmdienst. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
- ↑ filmrezension.de - online magazine for film criticism. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.kinofenster.de/themen-dossiers/aktuelles-dossier/dossier-aktuelle-politthriller-the-report-film/
- ↑ https://www.kinofenster.de/themen-dossiers/aktuelles-dossier/dossier-aktuelle-politthriller-arbeitsblatt/
- ↑ 2019 EDA Award Nominees. In: awfj.org. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
- ↑ Veja a Selefao dos filmes da 43ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo. In: mostra.org, October 5, 2019.