Torturers degrade and dehumanize themselves, their victims, and any society that tolerates their crimes. How can anyone claim victory over terrorism when they employ it themselves? Besides, torturers most famously, the Nazi and Communist regimes in Germany and Russia have always rationalized torture on grounds of public security, but have always ultimately used torture as a weapon to terrorize the public and crush political opposition. Do we really want to emulate the Nazis and Communists?
In the long run, torturers are a more pernicious threat to both our security and our liberty than any Al Qaeda agent could ever hope to be.
Senator McCain is right when he says that Zero Dark Thirty gives our enemies powerful ammunition to use against us, especially if it garners awards. Audiences around the world will see the movie as confirmation that the horrors of Abu Ghraib reflect the real soul of America. FAQ Do you know, there was a tune copied in this movie from Telugu Movie Leader?
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Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. The worldwide manhunt for the terrorist leader occupies the resources and attention of two U.
Ultimately, it is the work of a dedicated female operative Jessica Chastain that proves instrumental in finally locating bin Laden. Kathryn Bigelow. Mark Boal. Jan 11, wide. Mar 19, Sony Pictures Entertainment. Jessica Chastain Maya. Jason Clarke Dan. The movie follows the outline of a true-crime procedural, but with many more dead ends than successes, it takes on a certain tragic tone.
Bigelow includes little moments of rest and pause to humanize and refocus her heroine. Then, the film's final minute attack sequence -- and its aftermath -- is a tour de force. Zero Dark Thirty is a towering achievement.
Families can talk about Zero Dark Thirty 's violence. What's the impact of the torture scenes? How are they different from the climactic invasion sequence? How does the movie challenge viewers to think about all these different forms of violence?
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Parents recommend Popular with kids. Intelligent, uncompromising drama is violent and complex. This news dropped thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request on behalf of the conservative group Judicial Watch, which acquired emails between Pentagon and White House officials discussing their involvement with the project.
On the other hand, taking Zero Dark Thirty on its own terms means making sense of its ideology. Zero Dark Thirty was released just 19 months after the raid in Pakistan: It waded knowingly into a fraught slice of history just as that history was taking shape, and played a role, however hard to measure, in molding public understanding. Response to Zero Dark Thirty became an occasion to wrestle with the American myth-making machine, via Hollywood.
To pose an entire argument against Zero Dark Thirty without seeing it, or even to see it while tethered to our own strict political predispositions, makes it difficult to afford nuance, not only to the images onscreen, but to what happens between those images, or outside of them, or to what happens when a smart filmmaker purposefully places those images in contradiction to each other.
Zero Dark Thirty points us somewhere a little thornier than an easy endorsement of torture. The film starts off by asking us to endure long, brutally graphic scenes of torture at black sites in Pakistan and elsewhere, scenes premised on thinking of enhanced interrogation as, at base, an exchange.
Torture immediately follows. Then the scene of a terrorist attack— the Khobar massacre —then more ostensible gathering of intel from detainees, then another attack—the Tavistock Square bus bombing, which was one of four bombs to go off in London that day—then more gathering of information. It is no longer a news bulletin or a historical abstraction.
By the time all of this happens, the rhythmic back and forth between interrogation and reenactment has been broken, and all that is left is Maya, and her hunger. The hunt for bin Laden no longer feels like the ritualized misexecution of overwrought interrogation tactics.
President Obama, who hovers just outside the movie, never fully materializing, seems halfway reluctant.
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