![]() This includes a particularly intense encounter with a supposed double-agent working in the inner council of al Qaida. ![]() Most of the film is Maya running in to all kinds of brick walls, dead ends, false-positives and general bureaucratic stagnation the only solution being time, and the longer the search goes on, the higher the body count. While Bigelow and Boal do not outright condone torture, Maya and her CIA compatriots are for it, and it is up to the viewer to make that judgment call be warned, there is a water boarding in the first fifteen minutes. ![]() The movie shares her singular focus on the capture of bin Laden, Bigelow does not focus on background or explanation, instead dealing in narrative and experiences.Įasily the most divisive issue of the entire movie, torture comprises roughly the first forty five minutes of “Zero Dark Thirty,” in the early stages of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maya, played by Jessica Chastain, is the CIA analyst who spends the better part of a decade in Pakistan searching for an elusive courier Abu Ahmed, which leads her to bin Laden. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal airAmerica’s dirty laundry in a movie that is definitely not for everyone. ![]() Walking a fine line, the film “Zero Dark Thirty” is an intense experience based on the search and eventual killing of Osama bin Laden. By Price Zimmer | Arts & Entertainment Editor
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