Taxi to the Darkside is a 2007 documentary about the murder of an Afghan taxi driver, beaten to death by American soldiers while being held captive at the Bagram Air Base. The film gives a glimpse inside the Bagram Air Base; and the torturing Afghan’s suffer from Americans.
It’s also captures, what I believe the incompetence of the Bush Administration and the United States government in general. Although they seemed unaware of the Geneva Convention they knew exactly what was being done on the Bagram Air Base. The most devastating of the documentary is that it’s a documentary so it’s factual evidence. Dilawar’s story is extremely heart-wrenching because this young 22-year-old man was tortured to death by an army of U.S. soldiers. What makes it even more devastating is the fact that there was more than one solider beating him and other soldiers looked upon and didn’t intervene for his defense even if they had a little bit of morality. It’s sad to see a young man’s life ends so abrupt and badly due to innocence. Like Dilawar’s story hundreds of other men were imprisoned and tortured to death at the Bagram Air Base and most of them were innocent of the “terrorists acts” they were accused of doing.
The documentary also shows the rise and power of the journalist. If journalist hadn’t researched the air base, we all wouldn’t have been aware of what was going on with the Bagram Air Base and the U.S. government’s involvement in it. The journalists were responsible for introducing us to the cruel world that is the military.
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I'm glad you had such a strong reaction to this film. I think you could have looked more closely at how the film succeeded in getting these emotions from you from a journalistic perspective
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