{"id":8857,"date":"2013-11-16T21:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2013-11-16T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T01:42:52","slug":"the-oath-2010-laura-poitras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8857","title":{"rendered":"The Oath (2010, Laura Poitras)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Poitras in the news so much, I&#8217;m getting around to watching her follow-up to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/265\">My Country, My Country<\/a><\/em> &#8211; supposed to be the second in a trilogy, but now that she&#8217;s embroiled in spy drama, I wonder if plans have changed for the third film.  I kinda understood and kinda liked <em>My Country<\/em>, but <em>The Oath<\/em> is all-around incredible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/theoath1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Two brothers-in-law worked for Osama bin Laden shortly before 2001, and now Osama&#8217;s bodyguard and Al Qaeda trainer Abu Jandal is free in Yemen, driving a cab, and Osama&#8217;s driver Salim Hamdan, who was much lower in the chain than Jandal, having never taken &#8220;the oath&#8221; or being trusted with insider info, has been in Guantanamo for most of a decade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/theoath2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The movie follows Jandal, who holds jihadist meetings at home and discusses his history, and Hamdan&#8217;s lawyer, who&#8217;s refreshingly outspoken about his own military bosses&#8217; injustices.  Hamdan was &#8220;the first man with a personal connection to bin Laden captured after 9\/11&#8221;, and his victorious 2006 case led to a new law being passed which was then used against him retroactively.  His lawyer argued that you just can&#8217;t do that.  They did anyway.  Jandal was in prison during the 9\/11 attacks and knew nothing of them. When he was told the details, he turned on his former comrades (he&#8217;d personally known all 19 hijackers) and told the FBI everything he knew about Al Qaeda&#8217;s operations.  Unbelievably, Hamdan is released from Guantanamo and returns to his family in early 2009, but refused interview requests.  Jandal: &#8220;He has become very quiet and introverted because he spent most of his time in solitary confinement. I no longer own a taxi. I had to sell my car because I was in so much debt. I am now in desperate need of income.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/theoath3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Poitras in the news so much, I&#8217;m getting around to watching her follow-up to My Country, My Country &#8211; supposed to be the second in a trilogy, but now that she&#8217;s embroiled in spy drama, I wonder if plans have changed for the third film. I kinda understood and kinda liked My Country, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,93,1746,31],"class_list":["post-8857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-documentary","tag-laura-poitras","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8913,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}