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More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow
Zero Dark Thirty’s Jessica Chastain plays a CIA operative doggedly pursuing the world’s most wanted man.
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Zero Dark Thirty ***
Spoiler alert: it ends with the bad guy getting killed. More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow in this docudrama (read: hand-held) account of the hunt for Usama Bin Laden. From its conception to execution, the American government’s “Yippee ki yay!” murder of Bin Laden had Hollywood blockbuster written all over it. For its first 30 minutes, <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> plays like torture porn; Jigsaw waterboards Jihadists in <em>Saw VIII</em>. Jessica Chastain stars as Maya, a prototypical Bigelow heroine, initially reserved but quick to grow an icy set of balls when needed to cut it in a man’s world. She is a “Hawksian” professional of the highest order: the real-life person upon whom the character is based spent 12 years — her entire career with the CIA — doggedly pursuing the mission at hand. The Agency accuses the film of taking “significant artistic license, while portraying itself as being historically accurate” in its depiction of the government-sanctioned waterboarding of a messenger as a means of obtaining the vital clue needed to pinpoint the exact location of Bin Laden. Is Bigelow juggling the facts or exposing truths many hold to be self-evident? When it comes to establishing and maintaining tension, there wasn’t a better American genre picture released this year. Refrain from viewing it as historical record and you won’t leave disappointed.
Spoiler alert: it ends with the bad guy getting killed.
More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow in this docudrama-style (read: handheld) account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. You can’t preach due process without practicing it. Remember the good old days when war criminals like Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess were brought to trial? From its conception to execution, the American government’s “Yippee-ki-yay!” murder of bin Laden had Hollywood blockbuster written all over it.
A near-patriotic feeling in my gut indicating that the facts in the case might be a violation of “the American way” clouded my initial viewing. A second look was essential in order to separate fact from narrative filmmaking. For its first 30 minutes, Zero Dark Thirty plays like torture porn; Jigsaw waterboards Jihadists in Saw VIII.
Jessica Chastain stars as Maya, a prototypical Bigelow heroine, initially reserved but quick to grow an icy set of balls when needed to cut it in a man’s world. (Oddly enough, the pimp-slapping of a detainee is left to one of Maya’s brutish male underlings.) She is a “Hawksian” professional of the highest order: the real-life person upon whom the character is based spent 12 years — her entire career with the CIA — doggedly pursuing the mission at hand. The Agency accuses the film of taking “significant artistic license, while portraying itself as being historically accurate” in its depiction of the government-sanctioned waterboarding of a messenger as a means of obtaining the vital clue needed to pinpoint the exact location of bin Laden.
Is Bigelow juggling the facts or exposing truths many hold to be self-evident? When it comes to establishing and maintaining tension, there wasn’t a better American genre picture released this year. Refrain from viewing it as historical record and you won’t leave disappointed. With Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, James Gandolfini, and Mark Duplass.
Here's something you might be interested in.
More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow
More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow
Zero Dark Thirty’s Jessica Chastain plays a CIA operative doggedly pursuing the world’s most wanted man.
Movie
Zero Dark Thirty ***
Spoiler alert: it ends with the bad guy getting killed. More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow in this docudrama (read: hand-held) account of the hunt for Usama Bin Laden. From its conception to execution, the American government’s “Yippee ki yay!” murder of Bin Laden had Hollywood blockbuster written all over it. For its first 30 minutes, <em>Zero Dark Thirty</em> plays like torture porn; Jigsaw waterboards Jihadists in <em>Saw VIII</em>. Jessica Chastain stars as Maya, a prototypical Bigelow heroine, initially reserved but quick to grow an icy set of balls when needed to cut it in a man’s world. She is a “Hawksian” professional of the highest order: the real-life person upon whom the character is based spent 12 years — her entire career with the CIA — doggedly pursuing the mission at hand. The Agency accuses the film of taking “significant artistic license, while portraying itself as being historically accurate” in its depiction of the government-sanctioned waterboarding of a messenger as a means of obtaining the vital clue needed to pinpoint the exact location of Bin Laden. Is Bigelow juggling the facts or exposing truths many hold to be self-evident? When it comes to establishing and maintaining tension, there wasn’t a better American genre picture released this year. Refrain from viewing it as historical record and you won’t leave disappointed.
Spoiler alert: it ends with the bad guy getting killed.
More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow in this docudrama-style (read: handheld) account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. You can’t preach due process without practicing it. Remember the good old days when war criminals like Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess were brought to trial? From its conception to execution, the American government’s “Yippee-ki-yay!” murder of bin Laden had Hollywood blockbuster written all over it.
A near-patriotic feeling in my gut indicating that the facts in the case might be a violation of “the American way” clouded my initial viewing. A second look was essential in order to separate fact from narrative filmmaking. For its first 30 minutes, Zero Dark Thirty plays like torture porn; Jigsaw waterboards Jihadists in Saw VIII.
Jessica Chastain stars as Maya, a prototypical Bigelow heroine, initially reserved but quick to grow an icy set of balls when needed to cut it in a man’s world. (Oddly enough, the pimp-slapping of a detainee is left to one of Maya’s brutish male underlings.) She is a “Hawksian” professional of the highest order: the real-life person upon whom the character is based spent 12 years — her entire career with the CIA — doggedly pursuing the mission at hand. The Agency accuses the film of taking “significant artistic license, while portraying itself as being historically accurate” in its depiction of the government-sanctioned waterboarding of a messenger as a means of obtaining the vital clue needed to pinpoint the exact location of bin Laden.
Is Bigelow juggling the facts or exposing truths many hold to be self-evident? When it comes to establishing and maintaining tension, there wasn’t a better American genre picture released this year. Refrain from viewing it as historical record and you won’t leave disappointed. With Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, James Gandolfini, and Mark Duplass.
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