Another bone of contention for many people is the oft-talked about torture sequences. Yes, there is an implicit suggestion that torture can be an effective way of getting information. Of course, it could be effective, but there are two sides to that argument as well. To omit it would have been whitewashing history.
And then there are other complications. Like the stereotypical representation of Pakistanis, the way they dress and a factual error that they commonly speak Arabic. These irregularities aside, Zero Dark Thirty is an intense, thrilling film about an equally intense period in modern history.
Despite relentless special forces operations, very few al-Qaida supporters were found in the caves, and the caves themselves were just, well, caves. The initials do not stand for a Dutch airline. That's KLM. In the meantime, he was waterboarded times as the CIA pressed him for information about the al-Qaida network. This is another of the acronyms used repeatedly during the film. It is MI5 with hobnailed boots on, and has the word "shadowy" as an almost permanent prefix.
World leaders, including David Cameron, have questioned the loyalties of the ISI, and claimed that it appears to be both a supporter of terrorist groups, as well as the agency responsible for keeping them in check. And would he have felt safer or more vulnerable if the ISI had known his whereabouts? He is another senior member of al-Qaida who features in the film, albeit briefly a character played, incidentally, by an Israeli actor, Yoav Levi.
Faraj al-Libi was captured in and is still in US custody. He is alleged to be Bin Laden's number three, who knows the identity of Abu Ahmed, the courier who has become the focus of Maya's obsessional search for OBL. But unless I missed something, he doesn't tell the CIA anything.
So why he is in the film at all is a bit of a mystery. Yes, that really is him. Not as a ruthless Italian mafioso from New Jersey, but as a ruthless CIA boss who is only referred to as "the director". Gandolfini was slightly abashed by his performance, and admitted writing to Panetta to apologise. You're kind of like my father. You'll find something to be angry about'. This place actually exists. It is part of the vast test and training range in the south Nevada desert.
Without giving too much away, it is the place in the film where Maya tells some rather sceptical special force troops that Bin Laden has been found. She hopes. The helicopters they are to use on the mission are based at Area They ain't just any old helicopters either. Dan humiliates, beats, and water boards suspects, and then feeds them delicious meals of hummus and olives when they deliver. His depiction of his work as just another job — he could be playing a bus driver with the same amount and degree of expressiveness — is provocative.
I wish I had gone to see a film built around his character and his performance. Overall, I was disappointed in the film. Feature films are an art form. I want them to do to me what drama can do. I want to be made to identify with a character and I want, through that identification, to learn more about life, or I want to be entertained.
I wasn't entertained, and my understanding and worldview were not expanded. I think the same material could have been better treated in a documentary with selective re-enactments. Maya sacrificed years of her life to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Dan risks his humanity by making his living beating and humiliating other men.
Men, women and children throughout the Muslim world, and, as the film makes clear, in America's and Europe's cities, are eager to blow themselves up, as long as they can take some infidels with them. The film doesn't even acknowledge that there are people out there asking the question, never mind attempting to suggest an answer.
The film opens with audio from the September 11, terror attacks, suggesting that the war between Islam and the non-Muslim world dates from that attack. Not so. Islam increased its territory through jihad from its invention in the seventh century until September 11, , at the Battle of Vienna. After that defeat, Islam stopped its spread. The significance of the date of September 11 goes back over four centuries. America's founding fathers had to deal with jihad; see Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates.
Some argue terrorism, including the attack, is caused by Western imperialism. The solution to these thinkers is for the Western world to be nicer to non-Western nations, to practice multiculturalism and to share the wealth. Others argue that jihad is inextricable from Islam, and that one necessary step is for the West to recognize and cherish its own unique virtues — to cherish that for which its spies, soldiers, and citizens fight, sacrifice, kill and die.
At its key moment, the film is hollow. We all know how the hunt ends — we all know Osama bin Laden is dead. FAQ Do you know, there was a tune copied in this movie from Telugu Movie Leader?
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