Reese further got rid of her Barbie doll in "The Lawful Beauty". In this film, she is an ordinary woman married to an Egyptian-American. She is pregnant with her son and a husband who has not waited to go home at the airport with her son. Just a few hours before she waited, her husband Omar was arrested for no reason on suspicion of being related to terrorists. As he did not get any meaningful information from him, Meryl of the CIA took the privilege of extraditing him to Cairo and began a secret interrogation.
Jake witnessed the entire process of his colleague's death in the Cairo terrorist incident, and he became the person the CIA believed was the most suitable person to take over and assist in the interrogation of Omar. As a novice, he witnessed the inhumane process of Omar being interrogated and showed a wavering mentality from the beginning. After confirming that his husband was not simply missing, Reese hoped to get help from his old lover Peter through the information about his credit card bill on the plane. Although Peter made some efforts, in the end he chose not to interfere in order to ensure his career.
The other main line takes a flashback approach. Moa and Zineb fell in love without his father's approval. And his father happened to be Nigal, the terrorist's target. The footage of the two detonating a human body bomb in the square is the beginning of Jake's intervention in the interrogation and the end of their story. This main line mainly shows the unconventional education that terrorists have received, their views on themselves and the world, and the real reason why Nigal cannot treat Omar peacefully.
A film with a major theme often makes people inadvertently overlook the details. Instead, the tension presented by the actors during the performance becomes the key to the success of the film. The only match between Resse and Meryl is that people have to be convinced. The former is for a woman whose family is almost desperate, and the latter is for a woman whose country can ignore everything. The power of family affection and the value of rights are magnified in the words and behavior of the two women. The telephone conversation between Jake and Meryl clearly analyzed the power gap between each other and the trade-off rules between human nature and the state. In contrast, Omar, who has been surrounded by torture, does not have much room for performance. Only the last scene was still robbed of the limelight by Resse.
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