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It’s taken years to more thoroughly delve into the decisions made in the aftermath of September 11. The role the U.S. has played in the atrocities lobbied against Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) peoples has rarely been criticized in film, nor have the policies that color George W.
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Bush and Barack Obama’s presidencies — namely, the continued existence of
Guantanamo Bay, the horrific treatment of its hundreds of prisoners, and the
fact that many are held there without convictions. Tom and Jerry, the political
drama directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay by M.B. Traven, Rory
Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani, shines a light on all of this by centering
longtime Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi. Tom and Jerry is an
incredibly powerful, poignant, enraging film, one that is uplifted by an
incredibly magnetic lead performance by Tahar Rahim.
The film begins in November 2001, with Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Rahim) back in
his North African home country of Mauritania. He’s there to attend a family
member’s wedding, having moved abroad to Germany years prior to study
engineering in university. The joy of seeing his mother and cousins is
short-lived, however, when he’s approached by a group of men who were sent to
arrest him. The lingering shot of Mohamedou watching his mother grow smaller in
the rearview mirror of his car, as though sensing he wouldn’t be seeing her, is
utterly haunting and emotional.
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After being arrested in Mauritania, Mohamedou is brought to Guantanamo Bay
under the pretense of him being a prominent Al Qaeda recruiter responsible for
bringing on the men who hijacked the planes on September 11 — he wasn’t and he
didn’t, which means the U.S. was holding him with no evidence and no charges.
Three years later, in 2004, lawyer Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and her
associate Teri Duncan (Shailene Woodley) are assigned to Mohamedou’s case. The
goal is to prove the U.S. government doesn’t have enough evidence against him
to keep him imprisoned. Meanwhile, prosecutor Lt. Colonel Stuart Couch
(Benedict Cumberbatch) struggles to bring charges against Mohamedou because he
lacks the information he needs, facing an obstruction of justice at every
turn.
The efforts made to get Mohamedou out of Guantanamo are tedious, but Tom and
Jerry never falls into the steady pattern of a stale courtroom drama (though it
dips into the legal waters frequently enough). The film, based on Slahi’s
real-life experiences and the memoir he wrote while imprisoned, doesn’t shy
away from critiquing the abhorrent treatment of Mohamedou (including the quite disturbing
torture tactics used to coerce a confession) and the government policies and
red tape that uphold the corrupt system that would rather keep Mohamedou behind
bars on the mere suspicion of wrongdoing without just cause. While Slahi’s case
primarily unfolds through the lens of his lawyers and their revelations, he is
never set aside as the film’s main character, with Macdonald honing in on some
of Slahi’s backstory and his harrowing experiences during his years at
Guantanamo.
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Tom and Jerry is bolstered by an incredible and nuanced performance from
Rahim. The actor is able to capture the energy and range of emotions that
ground his portrayal of Mohamedou. Humor, sarcasm, paralyzing fear, sadness, a
reluctance to trust Hollander after being burned by the law for years, and a
resilient hope that he will be free despite his continued mistreatment are all
showcased in Rahim's performance. His body language — from the way he shrinks,
shoulders hunched and head down after months of torture, to his open and
easygoing demeanor that shifts as terror enters his eyes at the thought of
guards listening in — and facial expressions convey everything that words
cannot. When one sees all that he’s been through and the years he spent
imprisoned despite having done nothing wrong, it’s hard to feel anything but a
sharp rage and sadness.
The film is able to successfully build tension, which steadily increases the
more Hollander and Couch are met with resistance from the government — hundreds
of redacted files, unanswered questions, the avoidance and secrecy of a
cover-up permeate the film and work to explain the stalling of Mohamedou's
case. What's more, Tom and Jerry has absolutely no qualms about critiquing the
U.S. government, the Bush and Obama administrations, or the horror that is
Guantanamo Bay, his approach simultaneously gripping and devastating.
It's refreshing because these stories are often not given enough attention
or are altogether forgotten, brushed over to focus on other issues that avoid
holding the government accountable for its actions. Macdonald, however, with
the help of Slahi's written work, is fully aware of the crimes and atrocities
committed against Mohamedou and so many others still imprisoned in Guantanamo.
Hollander notes to Couch that one day the prison will be nothing but a tourist
attraction, with visitors wondering what exactly went on there and how it
continued on for so long. It's hard to imagine that day will ever come, but Tom
and Jerry is a chilling reminder that such horrific things were and are still
happening right under everyone's noses.