Strip Search

Year: 2004

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Glenn Close, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kerry Washington

Duration: 120 min

In the aftermath of the September, 11th, in China, the American student Linda Sykes is interrogated by the military Liu Tsung-Yuan. In New York, the Arab student Sharif Bin Said is interrogated by the FBI agent Karen Moore. The psychological methods of interrogation are the same, amicable in the beginning and brutal in the end; but there is no evidence that the students are terrorists. Must security and safety of the State come at the price of freedom?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Genre: Drama