[Skybird]

The film seems to be very polarizing, although the debate in the US and in germany could not be any more different.

From what I read, in the Us it seems more about senators complaining about too much revelations about CIA methods given int he film, which maybe is a wanted distraction from the content of torture in it. In Germany, the discussion is about right this: the role of torture in the whole story.

German critics are also apparently very split. I read two pieces today, one complained about the movie being very bad because "being too successful" in displaying torture - but refusing to combine a moral statement (the author implies it must be a negative moral statement under all circumstances) with it. The other author hails the movie for right this: refusing to distract with emotional or moral statements, being sober, unsentimental, and at the same time being self-reflective not only on the story told, but the nature of the movie itself: that we will never know the details, can never trust what we are being told ands thus even the movie should not be trusted.

It indeed seems as if the movie is met with only two very extreme polarized kinds of opinions, with different grades of liking and not-liking inbetween being spared from most opinion-forming so far. The German debate on the movie imo indeed is a very typically German debate for sure. Which I do not mean as a compliment this time.