Yah, when you get right to it, it *is* offensive. I dunno... my simplistic and ignorant gut reaction is to say that the security system over there is working out its insecurities about not having been able to prevent the terrorist attacks. I mean, god knows, there were intelligence service failures, failures to co-operate... just plain failures. :(
We watched the film this afternoon... wow. It wasn't at all how I expected it to be, which is somewhat nonsensical since I couldn't tell you what my prior expectations were. Had I not been so tired I think I'd have come away deeply depressed by the torture scene; as it was it just seemed like one more thing that rang alarm bells because it felt a bit like something in the real world...
Btw, did the CD ever turn up? I posted it on Thursday 1st-class, but one I posted at the same time only got there on Monday, and two cards Mum posted 1st-class on Saturday only arrived today... er, one of them did; the other one may well still be AWOL. Mum is now tres mad at the crappy postal service! I also have some stuff from the booklet to transcribe for you, but figure I'll wait til you have computer access at home again, since I know you can't get into web-based mail at work.
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Date: 2005-02-16 07:47 pm (UTC)We watched the film this afternoon... wow. It wasn't at all how I expected it to be, which is somewhat nonsensical since I couldn't tell you what my prior expectations were. Had I not been so tired I think I'd have come away deeply depressed by the torture scene; as it was it just seemed like one more thing that rang alarm bells because it felt a bit like something in the real world...
Btw, did the CD ever turn up? I posted it on Thursday 1st-class, but one I posted at the same time only got there on Monday, and two cards Mum posted 1st-class on Saturday only arrived today... er, one of them did; the other one may well still be AWOL. Mum is now tres mad at the crappy postal service! I also have some stuff from the booklet to transcribe for you, but figure I'll wait til you have computer access at home again, since I know you can't get into web-based mail at work.