Sunday, April 01, 2007
Why I don't like 24
Ok, here are some reasons that I don't like the 24 series. The Counter
Terrorist Unit CTU, does spend a large amount of time torturing people.
In the episode I just watched, somebody from Amnesty global came to
stop someone being tortured. The cunning people at CTU managed to
torture him anyway. My guess is that if you added up the number of
people who are tortured but who are innocent, then that would be
virtually everyone.
Anyway if you do get tortured and you are innocent, then you just get
back to work. If you complain about it, then you get fired (told to
leave work), as just happened in series 4 of 24. It is kind of weird,
that that the US TV and films is trying to make the public, believe
that it is acceptable to torture people and also that the government is
corrupt.
Still it is fun to watch. The program seems to have been made
by Fox and Sky, so I wasn't really expecting objectivity.
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