Zero Dark Thirty" tells the story of the decade-long mission to find Osama bin Laden, going into the shadowy world of intelligence operatives to uncover how the largest manhunt in history went down. And director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal don't shy away from depicting the "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding that were used along the way. "The new movie is not for the faint of heart or for those expecting typical Hollywood fare," is how The New York Times put it. And it's not just for the clear-eyed depiction of torture, but also what The Hollywood Reporter describes as "its denial of conventional emotionalism and non-gung ho approach to cathartic revenge-taking."
In Richard Corliss's review in Time Magazine, he describes a scene where a captured suspect, held in a CIA "black site," is pushed to the edge by being deprived of food, bombarded with ear-splitting noise, and submitted to waterboarding. His interrogator tells him "In the end, bro, everybody breaks. It's biology." And while scenes of torture have become commonplace in spy stories like "Casino Royale" and TV's "24," the impact here is far greater not only for reopening a still-painful wound inflicted on the nation, but because the film is entirely based on the firsthand accounts of the people who were involved. –By Mac McDaniel/Yahoo Movies
In Richard Corliss's review in Time Magazine, he describes a scene where a captured suspect, held in a CIA "black site," is pushed to the edge by being deprived of food, bombarded with ear-splitting noise, and submitted to waterboarding. His interrogator tells him "In the end, bro, everybody breaks. It's biology." And while scenes of torture have become commonplace in spy stories like "Casino Royale" and TV's "24," the impact here is far greater not only for reopening a still-painful wound inflicted on the nation, but because the film is entirely based on the firsthand accounts of the people who were involved. –By Mac McDaniel/Yahoo Movies
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