There was no shot of the towers falling at the start of this movie, only a phone call of a person inside the building calling an emergency operator. The director Kathryn Bigelow had the audience sit in darkness as you listened to a woman who knew she was going to die.
Since 9/11, there has been no bigger story than the capture of Osama Bin Laden. Political ideology aside, 9/11 conspiracies aside, Zero Dark Thirty is the CSI of how Bin Laden was discovered and killed. This movie works as a political thriller.
Of all the actresses nominated (I haven’t seen Amour or the Impossible), I thought Jessica Chastain performance the best.
There has been some discussion about this film in conversations I have had and in the news I’ve read. Was Jessica Chastian’s character Maya, a composite of three people (I read it was based on a real person who cannot be identified for security purposes)? Should they have included the torture scenes in the film? Was it too patriotic? I didn’t think the movie over dramatized real events. But who am I to say? Or, who are you to say? I am happy that this film raises those questions for some people. This film wasn’t made to be a documentary. It also wasn’t made to be a one and done history lesson on a chapter in American history that continues to alter the direction of the country. To have lived during this time, I needed to see this movie as an act of catharsis. It succeeded on every level for me.
There was no shot of the towers falling at the start of this movie, only a phone call of a person inside the building calling an emergency operator. The director Kathryn Bigelow had the audience sit in darkness as you listened to a woman who knew she was going to die.
Since 9/11, there has been no bigger story than the capture of Osama Bin Laden. Political ideology aside, 9/11 conspiracies aside, Zero Dark Thirty is the CSI of how Bin Laden was discovered and killed. This movie works as a political thriller.
Of all the actresses nominated (I haven’t seen Amour or the Impossible), I thought Jessica Chastain performance the best.
There has been some discussion about this film in conversations I have had and in the news I’ve read. Was Jessica Chastian’s character Maya, a composite of three people (I read it was based on a real person who cannot be identified for security purposes)? Should they have included the torture scenes in the film? Was it too patriotic? I didn’t think the movie over dramatized real events. But who am I to say? Or, who are you to say? I am happy that this film raises those questions for some people. This film wasn’t made to be a documentary. It also wasn’t made to be a one and done history lesson on a chapter in American history that continues to alter the direction of the country. To have lived during this time, I needed to see this movie as an act of catharsis. It succeeded on every level for me.
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