A good snippet from this Denzel Washington film, “The Siege,” released in 1998.
Here’s the Netflix summary:
When U.S. military zealots abduct a Muslim religious leader, constitutional rights are summarily suspended, and martial law is imposed in New York as hard-line Army Gen. William Devereaux (Bruce Willis) cordons off Queens to form a detention camp. FBI agents Hub (Denzel Washington) and Haddad (Tony Shalhoub) and CIA operative Elise Kraft (Annette Bening) struggle to save the day in director Edward Zwick‘s action-packed thriller.
In this scene, the character played by Washington comes across a torture scene. His argument with the evil officer, played by Bruce Willis, mirrors the current debate over torture. Washington plays the just man while Willis is clearly the bad guy and the torturer.
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Compare and contrast to Washington’s 2004 movie, “Man on Fire.” Here, Washington is both good guy and torturer.
Netflix says:
Creasy (Denzel Washington) is a former federal agent whose outlook on life is anything but sunny. While in Mexico City, he halfheartedly takes a job protecting the child (Dakota Fanning) of a couple whose lives have been threatened. The little girl begins to grow on Creasy, and the two form a bond that revives his trampled soul. But when she’s kidnapped, Creasy’s fury is unstoppable as he desperately tries to save her. Tony Scott directs.
In a post 9/11 world, torture, while horrifying, has come to be necessary to save a little white girl…
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And so it goes…