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Zero Dark 30

Friday, January 11, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty: A Seamless Weaving of Fact and Fiction

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have created a runaway train of a movie regarding the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

"Zero Dark Thirty" was generating controversy long before it hit movie theatres nationwide on Friday. Director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal were criticized for their depiction of CIA agents torturing inmates for information leading to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. The movie claims to be factual, and yet the CIA insists that torture wasn't part of the mix. Bigelow and Boal are also accused of allegedly obtaining classified information, which they, of course, claim they didn't. The movie follows a CIA female operative, Maya (Jessica Chastain), over the 10 years the U.S. hunted for Osama Bin Laden. She survives bombings and attacks, pouring over her computer and trying to assemble a coherent argument about Bin …

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