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Painfully stark yet utterly magnetic, “You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo” presents excerpts from the 2003 interrogation of the 16-year-old Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen accused of killing an American soldier during a firefight in an Afghan village.
Working from seven hours of recently declassified tapes, the Montreal-based filmmakers Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez have assembled an even-tempered glimpse behind a very dark curtain. What we see is a blurry, black-streaked box, the faces of Mr. Khadr’s Canadian interrogators hidden behind cartoonish smudges. This gives them a disturbingly jaunty look as they fiddle with an asthmatic air-conditioner and proffer cartons of fast food, their fake bonhomie soon descending into psychological cruelty.
As the teenager, realizing that the Canadians are not there to help him but to extract evidence for his American prosecutors, arcs from elation through crushing disappointment, a gallery of observers comments on his predicament. While raising many more questions than they answer, these voices — including former cellmates, lawyers, a psychiatrist and Mr. Khadr’s mother and oldest sister — serve a higher purpose than simple guilt or innocence. A deeply remorseful former United States Army interrogator may describe himself as a “monster,” but his behavior, we now suspect, was neither anomalous nor unsanctioned.







Briefly illuminating what one commenter calls the “legal black hole” of Guantánamo Bay, “You Don’t Like the Truth” cleverly employs voyeuristic techniques to unveil hidden atrocities. In the film’s most powerful section, Mr. Khadr (now 25 and serving an eight-year sentence after a 2010 plea deal) begs for protection and cries out for his mother while the observers join him on screen, watching his torment as if they were members of a celestial jury.







What they are really doing, however, is bearing silent witness to the repudiation of due process and the basic indecency of treating a legal minor as an adult enemy.







Written, produced and directed by Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez;



Running time: 1 hour 39 minutes.