What a waste of my time!!!

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Alright, you American sure thinks this is a provoking film and touchy subject, but what the hell? The movie sucks. I fast-forwarded a lot of times, because they said the same stupid things both the American and the man from Middle East(or whatever country he is coming from). The manuscript sucks, just full of half deep sentences that goes nowhere. The acting, except from Maggie Gyllenhaal and Bruno Lastra, sucks so bad that I felt like eating my brain instead of watching the same quotes rephrased by the same sucking actors. Oh my god how much I regret I watched this movie.Well, so I watched it. Everybody who has watched this know what it is all about(or else you are stupid), and are just waiting for what the hell is happening next? Oh, a strip search. OH MY GOD, so f****** unbelievable. So f****** what? They are breaking our rights, alright, I get it - GET ON. Tell me more. Don't use f****** two hours on telling me THAT. Jesus Christ.So, I fast-forwarded my way through a lot of the movie, because it was the same quotes over and over again. And then. Nothing. Seriously, nothing. It was nothing more. So instead of watching this movie, I recommend you to read this quote by Benjamin Franklin."The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." There. You have just read the meaning of the movie in less than 20 seconds. Don't waste two hours(or one in the short version) by watching this movie.

In the post 9/11 world, fear has been indoctrinated into most aspects of our lives. Governments worldwide manipulated and capitalized on this for their own gain - financially, politically and strategically. The Bush-driven Patriot Act has seen many people (guilty and otherwise no doubt) detained, tortured and dehumanized. Since a large percentage of the population are unaware that political agendas of media owners exist, they passively believe what they see on their nightly TV news or read in their daily newspapers. They are taught to fear the unknown, to trust their leaders implicitly (because they use nice words in speeches like 'freedom' and 'family') and not to question motives.'Strip Search' is a deliberate attempt to throw the light of reality into this collective 'un'consciousness.The storyline involves parallel stories of two people being detained in custody: an American woman in China, and a Middle Eastern man in the US. By using almost exactly the same dialogue, we are shown how to think outside the usual spectrum, and to feel compassion for both people. Without the twin story of the American woman, people would undoubtedly walk away from this feel feeling a lot differently.The acting is astonishing. One feels that this film meant more than just another job to the actors involved. I admire them immensely for their efforts.Hopefully this film will change a few minds, and that as a result - the world might become just that little bit better.

This play (I can see it as a stage play, as well as an excellently crafted film) delivers with surgical precision the key moral question that lies behind everything the "free world" needs to ask itself about freedom. By using an extremely well-delivered theatrical device, the viewer can not help but question the sense of "protection at any price" mentality behind the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and the repeal of over two hundred years of human rights legislation. An excellent film, with intense, nuanced performances from exceptional performers.See this film. Open your eyes, and your mind. If anyone can be treated like this, then no-one is free.

It makes you think what do you care more about, is national security really important if it costs us our personal freedom. This is why we left England people! This is why America is such a great country, everyone is individually represented. This constitution was designed to protect everyone as an individual, not to protect the society. It's in the bill of rights and the constitution, their really shouldn't be this much argument about it. Republicans, and claimed "patriots" ideas are violating the constitution much more than said "radical" liberals do, we fight for the people, which is what this country is based on in the first place. Anyway, watch it if its on, think about this as you watch it, and the next time you vote.