Zero Dark Thirty TV and Movie Guide

							Zero Dark Thirty
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Description
For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the
globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark
Thirty reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-
producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's
most dangerous man.


Actors
Jessica Chastain

Chris Pratt

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Customer Review
The ten-year manhunt for the world's most wanted terrorist leader is a story we all followed and
one whose ending will likely go down in history as one of the twenty-first century's most
triumphant moments, both for America and for many others across the globe. With ZERO DARK
THIRTY, director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriting partner Mark Boal have taken those ten
years and condensed them into 157 very deliberate, riveting, and powerful minutes. Much like
the manhunt itself, ZERO DARK THIRTY is a powerhouse, a thrilling and winding tale that
requires patience but arrives with an ending worth
waiting for.

September 11, 2001 was a Tuesday. ZERO DARK
THIRTY begins with a bone-chilling opening sequence
that brings us back to that dark day. Bigelow shows us
nothing but black, and layers tens or perhaps hundreds
of audio recordings of phone calls from hijacked-
airplane passengers and those trapped in burning
towers to their respective loved ones and to emergency operators. It is a stark, stripped
sequence that is ultimately extremely affecting.

But so, too, is the next extended sequence, one that takes place in 2003 and shows a terrorist at
an unnamed detention facility relentlessly tortured by a member of the CIA, Dan (Jason Clarke),
and his colleagues. Wanted is information that will hopefully lead to the capture of Osama bin
Laden, but given is nothing. And so the torture continues.

Many have condemned Bigelow and Boal for these extended torture sequences, with some
critics and viewers claiming that it glorifies torture and intelligence officials stating that it
incorrectly implies that these "enhanced interrogation techniques,", such as water-boarding and
sleep deprivation, garnered key information that led to bin Laden's capture.

I will briefly take an aside and add my two cents with this: 1) I don't agree that the film takes the
stance that torture is "good" or permissible, and 2) I don't agree that the film implies that the
torture of CIA detainees directly led to the capture of Osama bin Laden. But I digress.

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