of conspiracy is given a government job. This ex-coworker makes a number of empty promises to get Joe out of the camp as soon as the "political climate" settles, but says that his confession to helping murder Maximilian makes him a sensitive case. For having destroyed the old government, but also never having 'played ball' with the new one, Joe is stuck in limbo, in a prison cell until the end of time. Twelve years later, we find Joe writing his memoirs in a white cell resembling that of a prison's or an asylum's, seemingly oblivious even to his daughter's visits. It is possible that he is insane, or that he is perfectly sane, but the woman that visited was an actor pretending to be his daughter to break him down. She leaves Joe writing his memoirs and exits his cell that is really located in some low end residential apartment complex implying that Joe is not a political prisoner but is under some sort of house arrest being taken care of by the State. Cast Ralph Fiennes as Joe Donald Sutherland as John Thorne (later Chairman Thorne) Tom Hollander as President Maximilian II (a.k.a. "Junior") Lara Flynn Boyle as First Lady Josephine Marc Warren as Pool Ron Cook as Doc Robert Daws as Jones Laura Fraser as Madeleine Jonathan Hyde as Smith Camilla Rutherford as Tania Don Warrington as First Sergeant Miranda Raison as Daisy, Joe's Daughter Mackenzie Crook as Editor Historical references Historical references in the film include Jean-Paul Marat (from the French Revolution), Kim Jong-Il, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Augusto Pinochet, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, François Duvalier, Rudolf Hess, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Lyndon B. Johnson, Julius Caesar (from William Shakespeare's play), Robert Mugabe, Ngo Dinh Diem, Idi Amin, the PIRA Maze prison protests, U.S. POWs in Vietnam, the Weathermen terrorist group, the Khmer Rouge, the 1979 Revolution in Iran, and the subsequent Cultural Revolution in that country. Critical reception The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 17% out of 18 professional film critics gave the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.1/10. References External links "Sitting in the dock of the Bay: Ralph Fiennes talks about movies of conscience", Times Online, 9 March 2006 "Rights and Wrongs," New Statesman Time Out New York, "Land of the Blind" "Pretty shocking stuff. A very provocative film," Jeffrey Lyons Holden, Stephen. "Meet