A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
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Non scontato ben recitato, possibilista. Storia delicata e cruda. 7,5
It is a very different kind of movie but it was definitely worth my time. So amazing. It made me cry. You can watch this on Netflix. It is amazing. There is not a lot of action but I think it will be a satisfying watch for all viewers. <3 love compassion humanity humility, I am making 10 lines worth even though I believe my review enough. It does not need 10 lines because it is a very compelling movie. I am making 10 lines worth even though I believe my review enough. It does not need 10 lines because it is a very compelling movie.I am making 10 lines worth even though I believe my review enough. It does not need 10 lines because it is a very compelling movie. <3 love viewer
A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years. Camp X-Ray is one of those movies that tries to tell a different story and doesn't have war in it or gun shooting in fact is about a woman named Cole played by Stewart and a man called Ali played by Maadi and these 2 characters form a friendship together and she sends him the books of Harry Potter in order for him to read them. Camp X-Ray is pretty intense, lovely and very sad film that shows that not every men or women or even soldiers are the monsters that you might think.
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Private Cole (Kristen Stewart) has escaped her desperately boring small town life, and is stationed as a guard in Camp X-Ray, the notorious detention centre where suspected terrorists are held. Encountering particular hostility as a woman, among the predominantly Arabic detainees, she is forced to tough it out, until she crosses paths with Ali (Peyman Moaadi), a fluent and articulate prisoner who won't be quiet, and pesters her with queries. Eventually, after much hardship, the pair begin to establish a report that challenges each of them as people.With what strikes you from the beginning as a particularly low budget (and pretty minimal publicity) feature length debut director Peter Sattler has delivered this challenging and probing drama, that perhaps more fittingly keeps a small scale tone, and delivers a much bigger impact as a result. Playing like a less mind bending version of The Silence of the Lambs (which doesn't go unreferenced), it takes a subject torn from today's headlines, and uses it as a template to create some fine human drama.Playing as a character study of two diametrically opposed individuals, operating on different sides of an ideological war, in the lead role it zooms in primarily on Stewart's role as the headstrong young recruit who is forced to somehow find the strength to find common ground with a man who chucks sh!t all over her, whilst Moaadi's Ali is a complex, irrepressible character, whose behaviour and motivations always keep you guessing what is driving him.Independent cinema seems to be the only outlet for more intelligent, considered material like this to flourish in this climate, but really it's more of a blessing than a curse. ****
