Mehran Tamadon explores what it was like being interrogated by the Iranian regime by asking prisoners to reconstruct their experiences.
Alongside his companion film Where God Is Not, My Worst Enemy finds Tamadon shifting focus from the interrogated to the interrogator. The filmmaker sought an individual who had been interrogated by Iranian authorities in order to draw on their experiences to play an interrogator. The role finally fell to the Cannes-winning lead actor of Holy Spider, Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Together in an anonymous room, with Tamadon stripped to his underwear, they reconstruct the interrogation process, which gradually becomes an examination of the nature of power and coercion. The resulting film is intense and, at times, uncomfortable. And as it progresses, My Worst Enemy becomes an exploration of cinema’s relationship with its audience, questioning whether there is a limit to what it can show.
退休摇滚明星强尼·博兹(Bill Cable 饰)在性行为的过程中被人用白丝巾捆绑双手后用冰锥残忍刺死。其女友凯瑟琳·特拉梅尔(Sharon Stone 饰)是一名作家,去年出版的小说中就有双手被白丝巾捆绑的退休摇滚明星被女友用冰锥刺死的情节。虽然特拉梅尔通过了谎言测试,但曾枪杀两位游客却被判无罪的尼克·柯兰警探(Michael Douglas 饰)坚持认为特拉梅尔在说谎。因为他自己也曾接受过谎言测试,并且通过了……