On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
>
> 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
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