Creating that sense of safety can be tough when you're a new parent
battling sleep deprivation, social isolation, and potentially unequal new duties.
The elements of torture — isolation, physical exhaustion,
sleep deprivation, blindfolding — had been touched on in earlier films: Godard's Le petit soldat and Gillo Pontecorvo's The
Battle of Algiers, as well as Costa - Gavras's own Z. However, The Confession was the first film that zeroed in on torture as a seemingly endless ordeal, a systematic and relentless process aimed at delivering a specific outcome.