sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. They track the vehicle to a large urban compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. "I love reporting, so being on a big story is really exciting to me," said Boal, a former war journalist, of his scramble to write a new script after the event. Especially used by military personnel to describe an unwanted time to be awake or … I think that it's a deeply moral movie that questions the use of force. [94], In an interview with Time magazine, Bigelow said: "I'm proud of the movie, and I stand behind it completely. [89] Writer Andrew Sullivan said, "the movie is not an apology for torture, as so many have said, and as I have worried about. This search leads to the discovery of his compound in Pakistan and the military raid where bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011. It shows the unspeakable and lets us decide if the death of Bin Laden was worth the price we paid. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. See more words with the same meaning: military (related to). The film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of terrorist network Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks. Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - IMDb Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Take a look ahead at some of our most anticipated superhero series arriving in 2021 and beyond. "[60], The distributor Columbia Pictures, sensitive to political perceptions, considered rescheduling the film release for as late as early 2013. Zero Dark Thirty is the 2012 drama that focuses on one CIA analyst's involvement in the decade-long American manhunt to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards at the 70th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, with Chastain winning Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. One part I had to laugh was when a mob stood outside the American Embassy in Islamabad. Judicial Watch also found emails containing information on five CIA and military operatives that were involved in the Bin Laden operations. The final act of Zero Dark Thirty depicts the Abbottabad raid. "[93] In February 2013 in the Wall Street Journal, Boal responded to the Senate critics, being quoted as saying "[D]oes that mean they can use the movie as a political platform to talk about what they've been wanting to talk about for years and years and years? The website's critical consensus reads, "Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliantly crafted, Zero Dark Thirty dramatizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden with intelligence and an eye for detail. "[84], Michael Morell, the CIA's acting director, sent a public letter on December 21, 2012 to the agency's employees, which said that Zero Dark Thirty, takes significant artistic license, while portraying itself as being historically accurate ... [The film] creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques that were part of our former detention and interrogation program were the key to finding Bin Ladin. These charges, along with charges of other leaks to the media, became a prevalent election season talking point by conservatives. 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(2012). [85], The Huffington Post writer G. Roger Denson countered this, saying that the filmmakers were being made scapegoats for information openly admitted by government and intelligence officials. [97], Mary and Frank Fetchet, parents of Brad Fetchet, who worked on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower, criticized the filmmakers for using a recording of their son's voicemail without permission. One problem may be that Maya turns out to be correct, with a long, steady build-up depriving the climax of much of its impact and providing mostly irony. Otherwise, Maya just remains a stock character you have to fill in the gaps: lonely woman married to her job, always having to prove herself, obsessed with a task her superiors don't want to give priority.Some people pointed out to a big lie of the movie: that torture gave crucial information. Bigelow and Boal had initially worked on and finished a screenplay centered on the December 2001 Battle of Tora Bora, and the long, unsuccessful efforts to find Osama bin Laden in the region. The film's reproduction of enhanced interrogation techniques generated controversy. Another For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. as Dan. [33] The score, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, was released as a soundtrack album by Madison Gate Records on December 19, 2012. Author Greg Mitchell wrote that "the film's depiction of torture helping to get bin Laden is muddled at best – but the overall impression by the end, for most viewers, probably will be: Yes, torture played an important (if not the key) role. Maya is a CIA analyst tasked with finding the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. [65] After the film's limited release, given the controversy related to the film's depiction of torture and its role in gaining critical information, The New York Times columnist Frank Bruni concluded that the film is "a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be". Before briefing President Barack Obama, the CIA director holds a meeting of his senior officers, who estimate that bin Laden is 60–80% likely to be in the compound. [57], Partisan political controversy arose related to the film before shooting began. Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds. During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. Now some friends came to stay and the one place they decided they HAD to see was the empty plot of land where once stood Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death … Žižek proposed that if a similar film were made about a brutal rape or the Holocaust, such a movie would "embody a deeply immoral fascination with its topic, or it would count on the obscene neutrality of its style to engender dismay and horror in spectators." In a speech in the Senate, he said, "Not only did the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed, it actually produced false and misleading information. Zero Dark Thirty. The film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of terrorist network Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks. That's my favorite part of the movie. "[80] Filmmaker Alex Gibney called the film a "stylistic masterwork" but criticized the "irresponsible and inaccurate" depiction of torture, writing: there is no cinematic evidence in the film that EITs led to false information – lies that were swallowed whole because of the misplaced confidence in the efficacy of torture. Do I think that Feinstein used the movie as a publicity tool to get a conversation going about her report? Navy S.E.A.L. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. ... [T]he truth is that multiple streams of intelligence led CIA analysts to conclude that Bin Ladin was hiding in Abbottabad. [81], Philosopher Slavoj Žižek, in an article for The Guardian, criticized what he perceived as a "normalization" of torture in the film, arguing that the mere neutrality on an issue many see as revolting is already a type of endorsement per se. So the decision is left to the higher-ups, to bomb the place, raid it, or just keep waiting for more definitive intel. Most of the story involves a CIA semi-fictional agent who by sheer determination and luck convinces the Agency that Bin Laden can be reached, and that they have a good idea of what men is the key to his whereabouts: Ibrahim Sayed, AKA Abu Ahmed Al-Kuwaiti. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader. "[49] Zero Dark Thirty grossed $95,720,716 in the U.S. and Canada, along with $37,100,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $132,820,716. She boards a military transport back to the U.S., the sole passenger. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. WARNING: Spoilers. The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association's award for Best Director was given to Bigelow, the second time the honor has gone to a woman (the first also being Bigelow for The Hurt Locker). Some of the sourcing I had developed long, long ago continued to be helpful for this version. Zero Dark Thirty is night-time. [88] Critic Glenn Kenny said that he "saw a movie that subverted a lot of expectations concerning viewer identification and empathy" and that "rather than endorsing the barbarity, the picture makes the viewer in a sense complicit with it", which is "[a] whole other can of worms". Information from detainees suggests Sayed is UBL's courier. It stated that in June 2011, while giving a speech at a CIA Headquarters event honoring the people involved in the Osama Bin Laden raid, CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed information classified as "Secret" and "Top Secret" regarding personnel involved in the raid on the Bin Laden compound. He's just not in the movie. "But nobody likes to throw out two years of work. Jessica Chastain Maya. [91] Critic Andrew O'Hehir said that the filmmaker's position on torture in the film is ambiguous, and creative choices were made and the film poses "excellent questions for us to ask ourselves, arguably defining questions of the age, and I think the longer you look at them the thornier they get". I'd point out that it is just a half-lie. [82], Journalist Steve Coll, who has written on foreign policy, national security and the bin Laden family, criticized the filmmakers for saying the film was "journalistic", which implies that it is based in fact. Could Maya really have been recruited straight out of high school. Zero Dark Thirty is military slang, used across the services, by British and American soldiers, to describe a time after darkness has fallen. But now you will be remembered forever as torture's handmaiden. These emails were provided to the filmmakers, as was later confirmed by the Obama Administration in a sworn declaration. [86] Denson noted Panetta speaking as the CIA chief in May 2011, saying that "enhanced interrogation techniques were used to extract information that led to the mission's success". 1. Denson said that Leon Panetta, three days after Osama bin Laden's death, seemed to say that waterboarding was a means of extracting reliable and crucial information in the hunt for bin Laden. In 2009, during the Camp Chapman attack, Maya's fellow officer and friend Jessica is killed by a suicide bomber. Senator John McCain, who was tortured during his time as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, said that the film left him sick – "because it's wrong". Her family also asked that the film's U.S. distributors make a charitable donation in Ong's name, and should go on record that the Ong family does not endorse the use of torture, which is depicted in the film during the search for Osama bin Laden. Al-Baluchi was transferred to Guantanamo in 2006 for a military tribunal. Zero Dark Thirty - Trailer No. Part 1: THE SAUDI GROUP Two Years After Sept. 11 CIA BLACK SITE: Dan (Jason Clarke) walks into a dingy room where a terrorist financier, Ammar (Reda Kateb), is being held captive by several other CIA members wearing balaclavas. as Maya. [3] It was the top-grossing film of its wide release premiere weekend.[50]. [27] Parts of the film were shot in Mani Majra. Paul N. J. Ottosson won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, tying with Skyfall. It is no easy task. [38], New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who designated the film a New York Times critics' pick, said that the film "shows the dark side of that war. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. [68], The Republican congressman Peter T. King requested that the CIA and the U.S. Defense Department investigate if classified information was inappropriately released; both departments said they would look into it. Parents need to know that Zero Dark Thirty is a combination war movie, thriller, and docudrama about the intense, years-long hunt for Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 attacks, from the filmmakers behind The Hurt Locker.Perhaps the movie's most controversial element is its depiction of "waterboarding" and torturing prisoners for information. It was the site's best-reviewed film of 2012. Some critics, in light of the interrogations being depicted as gaining reliable, useful, and accurate information, considered the scenes pro-torture propaganda. Entertainment Weekly wrote, "The controversial Oscar contender easily topped the chart in its first weekend of wide release with $24.4 million. [58][59] Sony denied that politics was a factor in release scheduling and said the date was the best available spot for an action-thriller in a crowded lineup. [20] Bigelow has explained that "it's a military term for 30 minutes after midnight, and it refers also to the darkness and secrecy that cloaked the entire decade-long mission."[21]. The film's working title was For God and Country. [7][8][9][10][11] Acting CIA director Michael Morell felt the film created the false impression that torture was key to finding bin Laden. [87] In a Huffington Post article written a week later, Denson cited other statements from Bush government officials saying that torture had yielded information to locate bin Laden. "[62] No release of these details has been proven. He also said the senators' letter showed they were still concerned about public opinion supporting the effectiveness of torture and didn't want the movie reinforcing that. [34], Electronic Arts promoted Zero Dark Thirty in its video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter by offering downloadable maps of locations depicted in the film. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man. Maya learns what the CIA was told five years earlier: Ibrahim Sayeed traveled under the name of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. At a U.S. base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Maya confirms the identity of the corpse. Does it give an accurate picture of how the CIA anti-terrorism efforts really work? 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Zero Dark Thirty: Jason Clarke confesses Hermione Hoby Playing a ruthless CIA operative in Zero Dark Thirty has given Jason Clarke the biggest and most controversial role of his career. a very late - or very early - time of the day. Additional maps for the game were made available on December 19, to coincide with the film's initial release. Boal said, though, "I don't think that [effectiveness] issue has really been resolved" if there is a suspect with possible knowledge of imminent attack who will not talk. [71] In 2012, Judicial Watch released an article stating the Obama Administration admitted that the information provided to the production team could pose an "unnecessary security and counterintelligence risk" if the information were to be released to the public. "[22], Along with painstakingly recreating the historic night-vision raid on the Abbottabad compound, the script and the film stress the little-reported role of the tenacious young female CIA officer who tracked down Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty is a depiction of the process of finding and killing UBL. I believe it,  ..." referring to the intelligence committee's report on enhanced interrogations. The two were about to begin filming when news broke that bin Laden had been killed. He then turned up stories about a young case officer who was recruited out of college, who had spent her entire career chasing bin Laden. [86], National security reporter Spencer Ackerman said the film "does not present torture as a silver bullet that led to bin Laden; it presents torture as the ignorant alternative to that silver bullet". [19][61][62][63][64] The nationwide release date was pushed back to January 11, 2013, moving it out of the crowded Christmas period and closer to the Academy Awards. But when taking on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds winning may come at too high a price. Was this review helpful to you?

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