> Actually, the torture took place under the Videla regime in Argentina.
> There is an interesting reversal of roles in the documentary, as the
> torturer, Julio Simon, was the good cop figure in the concentration camps,
> who tried to illicit confessions from detainees with small kindnesses;
> while
> his former victim, "Hernardo" (?) now interrogates him as a good cop,
> trying
> to illicit the names of former accomplices with vacuous promises of
> "complete redemption" and possible transfer if Simon gives up his former
> colleagues. Hernardo even muses on the role reversal during the one of
> the
> interviews, and he clearly enjoys it.
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Thanks for the clarification. I was pretty lit when I watched it and tuned in after whatever opening might have given some background.
CG