Zero Dark Thirty is a dramatised documentary on how the CIA hunted down and killed Osama Bin Laden. It is a powerful film, which shows that hatred can strip moral and empathy from ordinary people, and reduce them to bare animal instincts.
Zero Dark Thirty is a dramatised documentary on how the CIA hunted down and killed Osama Bin Laden. The film suggested that information about Al Qaeda and Bin Laden were elicited through all means available to the US Torture was an important part of it.
The film followed the experience of Maya, a CIA analyst. From being shocked by interrogations and tortures, Maya was capable of conducting tortures herself later. The more she participated in the investigation, the more involved she was, both physically and emotionally. She stayed on when her partner had enough of it. Killing of her friends and colleagues by terrorists added to her determination. "Kill him for me!", she told the assassins before their raid on Bin Laden's compound. She was full of hatred on her face and fire in her eyes (very good acting).
This is a powerful film. The scenes came back many days after I saw it. It asks serious questions. One of them is: is torture justified if it is "needed" to hunt down terrorists?
It seems to me that when it comes to politics, one would allow oneself to suppress moral and empathy. Why? A senior CIA officer shouted to his team: "I want targets. Do your f**king jobs, bring me people to kill!". Whoever those targets were was irrelevant, apparently. That is rather frightening.
Hatred brings out hatred.
Both sides do everything within their power to hurt the other side.
There is not much difference between the two sides (though both sides strenuously refute that):
They exhibit nothing more than animal instincts.
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