Samual L. Jackson: Moral Questions In The Movie

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Those are the main moral questions in the movie... The premise is the usual nightmare scenario: A terrorist puts 3 nuclear bombs in 3 big US cities, and threatens to explode them (there is a timer on them) unless his demands are met. The terrorist is actually captured by US agencies, they know that he is the right guy and he has the information and the ability to stop the bomb. How to get him to reveal the locations or stop them exploiding? That is the moral question of the movie. Now for the sake of the thread, don't bother with the plausibility of the scenario, just work with it, OK? In the movie, Samual L. Jackson plays the main torturer, who wants nothing but results. He gets all the best lines too, and interestingly pretty much