Review: Please Remove Your Shoes

June 21st, 2010

by Lita Robinson

Everyone can relate to the singular combination of apprehension and humiliation that is the modern airport experience. Not only must you display your personal items to everyone in the vicinity (Prescriptions! Underwear! Tampons!) but you are forced to make the walk through the metal detectors and the gauntlet of wand-wielding agents without even the dignity of shoes. Everyone wonders, at one point or another, whether all these charades are actually doing any good in keeping us safe.

Please Remove Your Shoes would succinctly answer no. Through extensive interviews with ex-Air Marshals, government officials and reporters, this documentary examines the advent of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) in the wake of 9/11, painting a disturbing picture of waste, inefficiency, and abuse of power. The former Marshals, several of whom have specific expertise in aviation-based terrorism, describe a “nonexistent” security system before 9/11, and a bureaucratic nightmare after.

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