So you think Watanabe was a sick monster????????.......well
don't forget what Americans STILL do, waterboarding, other torture. All sick bastards.
shareGo get yourself waterboarded and then get yourself beaten up the way Watanabe beat up Zamperini. Then give us your opinion.
shareSounds like you have had all that done to you, and it gave you brain damage. Sorry to hear that.
shareAs a US military veteran, except for waterboarding I was subjected to the SAME "stress positions" and sleep deprivation that is inflicted upon captured terrorists in enhanced interrogation, used in my training to SIMULATE REAL torture. Other service members in more intense combat specialties than mine do get waterboarded. So if I suffered brain damage from that, I did it in the service of my country.
As for the kind of of torture that Watanabe inflicted, I didn't suffer that, but I was born in the Philippines a few years after World War II and grew up around quite a few people, including relatives, who did. There's no comparison. So GFY!
How about Abu Ghraib? Was that "BETTER" torture?!??!
Point is, Watanabe was sick, true........and there are sick bastards in the USA also.
Eleven US service members were court-martialed and convicted for crimes at Abu Ghraib. Name me one other country that ever charged, let alone convicted, any of its service members for committing torture.
shareSo the Americans committed horrible torture? You admit that? Do you? So they were like Watanabe? ...........try and follow.
shareI stated that what the US does to captured terrorists as enhanced interrogation is what they subject to certain of our own combat troops, as SIMULATED torture as part of their training to resist real torture. Those small handful of servicemembers who exceeded those limits were properly punished, and it's NOTHING compared to what the Japanese like Watanabe subjected to his prisoners and those I grew up around back in the Philippines.
As for what other country has prosecuted its own troops for alleged torture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqy4cAQVzLU
If you're an American, one of these so-called "torturers" may save your life someday. And then again, maybe one of them won't.
If you're from any other country, you're on your own when the Jihadists come for your head. Either way, you're not worth a drop of American blood.
I'm done here wasting my time with a polemic a$$hole who wouldn't know the truth if it chewed his head off. GFY!
Typical fkn ignorant stupid American. Your country did and does its share of torture. Shut the *beep* up.
shareYou know they wouldn't have been punished at all if the pictures were never released. Besides, last time I checked they were enlisted men and women and not the officers who had to know what was going on.
shareWell, nobody was born a monster, something turns you into one. What I could not understand was why Loui opposed Watanabe so bad. It doesn't helped him anyway, he just got beaten again and again. No revolution or whatever happened, he just could keep his mouth shut as everyone else, his life would be easier.
And about Watanabe, I'm not discussing the real person, just the character from this movie representingt him. Miyavi made the character less unpleasant but what I think is he tried to be priced, even by an enemy soldier. Every single person in his life is trying to fit and to be priced, by friends, family, comunity, and mostly by his enemies, it means you are someone if they respect you. Zamperini could at least pretend some respect and save himself the stick at his nose.
Poor movie, had some good moments and that's all.