影视听力 第47期: Taxi To The Dark Side 驶向阴霾的出租车

2002年，一个无辜的士司机在阿富汗被美军折磨致死。影片通过翔实的记录与调查，深刻揭露了美国在阿富汗所犯下的罪行。

 对话文本:(系普特网友整理，文本只包括旁白影评部分，不包括电影原声。)

Taxi to the Dark Side is a new documentary from Alex Gibney. His previous film was Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. And I think this movie Taxi to the Dark Side belongs with that Enron documentary and maybe with Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight as one of the really pivotal, indispensable documentaries of this decade.

That is when we look back and try to make sense of what happened after 2001 during the Bush Administration, during the war on terror. We'll have to look at this movie to see what happened to this country and where we might have gone wrong.

It's a very powerful and meticulous¹ movie. It takes its title from the case of a young man from Afghanistan whose name was Dilawar, who was a taxi driver, who was captured by American forces in 2002 and who died in American custody² at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan that year.

The movie goes from his case and traces a whole history of interrogation, torture, cover-up that goes from Bagram to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo that involves some very familiar figures from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Secretary of Defense³ Donald Rumsfeld as well as prisoners themselves and also the interrogators, the soldiers and intelligence officers who carried out a policy that was never really admitted to exist, but that this film makes a very strong case was in fact a new kind of policy for dealing⁴ with what the Bush Administration insisted was a new kind of war.

Now this movie gains a lot, I think, from its evenness and meticulousness⁵ of tone. It's really a piece of investigative journalism⁶, more than a piece of advocacy, although of course it does have a point of view, it is making an argument about the roots and the consequences of American policy. But it's a very serious, and it's a very well-documented and thoroughly⁷ made argument. And this is really a movie that, I think a lot of people will want to avoid, because we don't want to think about this, we don't want to think about torture, we don't want to think about the war on terror, we don't want to think about what is being done to us or by us out there in the world. But this is nonetheless a movie that will be around for a long time, and that will stand as an important, historical record of some of the things that we would rather not think about that are going on in the world right now.

1 meticulous   

adj.极其仔细的，一丝不苟的

参考例句：

• We'll have to handle the matter with meticulous care.这事一点不能含糊。
• She is meticulous in her presentation of facts.她介绍事实十分详细。

2 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

3 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

4 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

5 meticulousness   

谨小慎微

参考例句：

• ICD 10 is characterized by its newness, comprehensiveness and meticulousness. ICD?10 的主要特点是新、全、细。 来自互联网
• The distinct grill cooking, typifies the health-consciousness, meticulousness and artistry of classic French food. 铁板烧以其独特的烹饪手法，更能体现出法式料理崇尚科学健康搭配，追求精雕细琢、术美感的风格。 来自互联网

6 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

7 thoroughly   

adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地

参考例句：

• The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
• The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。