President Versus David Hicks, The

Aroview: Timely, if 'difficult' documentary which follows the efforts of the father of 'Australian Taliban' fighter David Hicks, to free his son from US imprisonment at the much-criticised Guantanamo Bay facility, where inmates are forbidden contact with family and lawyers.

Heavily relying on recitations of Hicks' letters from prison, this sags a little in conveying his plight or engendering sympathy (after all, the Taliban are hardly nice guys). However, the film improves when focussing more on father Terry Hicks, who travels to Pakistan to find out more about his son's activites prior to capture. While flawed, vetern doco dir. Levy makes a strong statement about the weakly-justified cruelties of the 'war on terror'.

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