Less than two months after the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, President Bush delivered a speech in which he announced to the world, “you’re either with us or against us in the fight against terror.” This insistence on a neat dichotomy between good and evil has been a defining characteristic of our international politics ever since. This dilemma is the central problem of Gavin Hood’s Rendition, a thriller about the moral complexity of the War on Terror.
Exploring issues of duty, family and humanity through interrelated storylines, the film offers a troubling, if somewhat typical, view of the dominant struggle of our time