Sunday, March 16 at 2:45 p.m. (following the 12:45 p.m. screening).
Admission to the Movie Talk is open to the public and free. Admission to the screening is a regular Ross prices.

TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
Staying on the current-events beat after his 2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, filmmaker Alex Gibney aims to make ripped-from-the-headlines -accusations that are also durable documents with Taxi to the Dark Side.

The title refers to the cab driven by an Afghan man named Dilawar. Picked up as a suspect in a rocket attack in 2002, he was placed in the custody of U.S. soldiers at the Bagram "Collection Point." Within five days, Dilawar was dead from the injuries he sustained from beatings to the legs, complicated by the trauma of being left spread-eagled and handcuffed to the ceiling of his cell. Dilawar's story is used as the entryway into a larger discussion of systems, as his prison cell opens onto a broad study of American interrogation tactics as they've developed in the years following 9/11.

Gibney's experts answer the central question - "Does torture ever work?" - with something close to a pat "No." But maybe Taxi has to cut messy issues clean, so they'll fit as building blocks in its splendid polemic architecture? When you step back, it is something to admire: Without cheapening the suffering of American or Afghan, the film retrieves the torture issue from the realm of the abstract and gives the plain facts of this world right now.”Nick Pinkerton, L.A. Weekly

JOHN BRODSTON BIO
"I retired from the AF in 2005 after 38 years in the military. I went to Creighton, UNO, and UNL as an undergrad and graduated from Creighton medical in 1980. Done post grad work at Princeton, Ohio State, I am currently attending graduate school at UNL. As a flight surgeon, I went all over the world (twice). I've been to Iraq and Afghanistan on a number of occasions. I am proud of my personal run-ins with Secretary Rumsfeld and two of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Meyer and Franks. I personally know of hundreds who have opposed these officials and been stomped on. Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez was bad news too."