"Look, torture works on 24 and in movies because it has to. It’s a dramatic device to move the plot along, but ask terror experts and they’ll tell you it’s one of those movie tropes that’s got no basis in real life. Like a wedding being interrupted, or someone this handsome [Brad Pitt] feeling sad, or this character [Emma Stone in Aloha] being part-Asian. It works because it just says it does and we’re supposed to take it."
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John Oliver, "John Oliver and Helen Mirren Take the U.S. and ‘24’s’ Jack Bauer to Task Over Torture", Last Week Tonight, (06-15-15).
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