Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Edgar Ramirez, Joel Edgerton, James Gandolfini
Running Time: 159 min
Maya (Jessica Chastain) can only held her breath. Her long search of the man who is responsible for 9/11 attack all comes to this, a final raid on a compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, without the consent of Pakistani government. She had spent the last 10 years hunting Bin Laden, the guy Americans used to love in the 80s for fighting the Soviets. Now it all comes to this, she is not even sure who lived on the suspicious compound. After the breath taking raid it is clear that the one who got killed in the third floor of the compound is bin Laden himself. Maya stares into the blank, her objective has been fulfilled. But now what? Does the war of terror is over?
It is an uneasy question for Americans (and also an answer to Morgan Spurlock's Where in the world is Osama bin Laden), does the hunt for bin Laden must comes at the price of betraying the so called American values? Why do the U.S who always loved to 'import' democracy practice torture to prisoners? It is also uneasy that this film suggest that the whereabouts of Bin Laden was successfully found because CIA tortures prisoners. Tortures 'does' work and this one create a storm in the U.S.
Hypocrisy is one of the theme and it shows that U.S acted out of anger, fear and lust for revenge. It all comes with the price of compromising their values. As for me such things aren't new. I have seen the documentary Taxi to the Dark Side and read news from the newspapers. Tortures and events presented by Bigelow as journalistic, not editorial. She let the viewers decide how to feel.
Zero Dark Thirty is quite heavy and a strong Oscar contender from the first ever female director to won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker. Started with a blank screen accompanied by the distress 911 call from the event in 9 September attack, the film progress with Maya's determination to find Bin Laden by visiting war zones. At some point the CIA seems to lost interest in Bin Laden, but it is Maya's cold determination for all these years that brought the SEAL team to Abbotabad, Pakistan.
This is an exceptional film, with not so much action, but manages to built up the thrill through a series of people just talking and stalking. The torture scenes are not gory but difficult to watch and Jessica Chastain proves that she is a good actress. Perhaps she will nail Best Actress in this year's Oscar.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Edgar Ramirez, Joel Edgerton, James Gandolfini
Running Time: 159 min
Maya (Jessica Chastain) can only held her breath. Her long search of the man who is responsible for 9/11 attack all comes to this, a final raid on a compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, without the consent of Pakistani government. She had spent the last 10 years hunting Bin Laden, the guy Americans used to love in the 80s for fighting the Soviets. Now it all comes to this, she is not even sure who lived on the suspicious compound. After the breath taking raid it is clear that the one who got killed in the third floor of the compound is bin Laden himself. Maya stares into the blank, her objective has been fulfilled. But now what? Does the war of terror is over?
It is an uneasy question for Americans (and also an answer to Morgan Spurlock's Where in the world is Osama bin Laden), does the hunt for bin Laden must comes at the price of betraying the so called American values? Why do the U.S who always loved to 'import' democracy practice torture to prisoners? It is also uneasy that this film suggest that the whereabouts of Bin Laden was successfully found because CIA tortures prisoners. Tortures 'does' work and this one create a storm in the U.S.
Hypocrisy is one of the theme and it shows that U.S acted out of anger, fear and lust for revenge. It all comes with the price of compromising their values. As for me such things aren't new. I have seen the documentary Taxi to the Dark Side and read news from the newspapers. Tortures and events presented by Bigelow as journalistic, not editorial. She let the viewers decide how to feel.
Zero Dark Thirty is quite heavy and a strong Oscar contender from the first ever female director to won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker. Started with a blank screen accompanied by the distress 911 call from the event in 9 September attack, the film progress with Maya's determination to find Bin Laden by visiting war zones. At some point the CIA seems to lost interest in Bin Laden, but it is Maya's cold determination for all these years that brought the SEAL team to Abbotabad, Pakistan.
This is an exceptional film, with not so much action, but manages to built up the thrill through a series of people just talking and stalking. The torture scenes are not gory but difficult to watch and Jessica Chastain proves that she is a good actress. Perhaps she will nail Best Actress in this year's Oscar.
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