“I want people to recognize that, at some point, people were able to put a problem ahead of party,” director Scott Z. Burns said at TIFF
that they stuck with it, in spite of its shrunken budget and fast-tracked filming schedule. Driver playsthe Senate staffer who spent over six years investigating the CIA’s use of gruesome torture techniques post 9/11, and eventually compacted his findings into a 6,700-page report.
“I want people to recognize that, at some point, people were able to put a problem ahead of party, try to find a solution, and try to depoliticize these things, and do what our country was meant to do,” Burns said at TIFF on Saturday. “The cost of not doing that is extraordinary.” “If somebody lights a fire in your house, you can’t ignore it just because someone else lit it. It’s still a fire, you have to put it out,” added Jon Hamm, who explained thatis relevant given that “we seem to be living in an accountability-free zone. [It’s helpful] to be reminded that there are systems put in place to hold people accountable. And when they work, they work.
“Individuals do matter—as does the force and character of one person who decides, as Dan did, to not be buried by the five zillion pages of documents that the CIA dumped,” the actor explained, referencing the over 6 million pages provided by the CIA that Jones and a few colleagues combed. The sheer number of documents provided, according to Bening, was “part of the strategy” to cover up the truth about theused. “They figure…somebody’s going to get bored.
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