(12/19/2012 AMC Century City 15 am 10:30am screening)
Bigelow's movies, whether it's "The Hunt for Bin Laden" or "The Hurt Locker" It’s hard to see the director’s attitude towards war and revenge. She is more like trying to describe events that have nothing to do with her: supporting or protesting war, agreeing with or opposing revenge, it’s just that everyone has seen the movie. After the private experience, what the audience can see through the director’s lens is the state of the person: whether it is the haggard CIA analyst in "Hunting Osama Bin Laden" or the almost pathological treatment of bomb disposal in "The Hurt Locker" Obsessed soldier.
A plot in the movie: CIA analyst Maya and his boss Joseph reported to Minister Panetta, then CIA director, that we found a white Siamese apartment in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which may be bin Laden’s residence. , But not sure. Panetta was obviously not satisfied with this answer. He said, "You must tell me more about the residents in this apartment at the next meeting." At the end of the meeting, Panetta asked Joseph: "Who is this lady?" Without waiting for the boss to speak, Maya blurted out: "I'm the motherfucker who found this place. found this place)" When the
opening of the film appeared on September 11, 2001, what followed was not the scene of the hijacked airliner crashing into the building that had been played countless times, but the darkness, only the background sound of the countless victims playing before the death. Recording fragments of phone calls to loved ones or first aid. More than 3,000 voices struggling to survive, facing the darkness, lasted for nearly 2 minutes. Then there was a black site somewhere in the CIA, "Who the hell is Abu Ahmed? I know you know him!" The CIA interrogator yelled, and the heroine Maya was on the side. After that, a series of tortures including waterboarding, hunger, noise, pants off, sleep deprivation, dog chain, box lock, etc. were displayed on the big screen without any scruples.
In the film, Jessica Chastain is very successful in playing the role of Maya, an efficient but extremely exhausted intelligence analyst of the CIA. After 12 years of work in the CIA, he has basically made no achievements but watched her female colleague around her being attacked by terrorists. But death, the boss was transferred under pressure, and even himself was attacked. But when it was determined that bin Laden was in Abbottabad, she said without hesitation at a meeting where all the leaders said "about 60% of the time he was there", "I am 100% sure that he is there, of course. It can also be said to be 95% certain." At the end of the film, Maya, who had completed the mission, walked into the cargo compartment of the transport plane, leaned on a chair, and cried so dumbly without the comfort of revenge.
It is difficult for moviegoers to accept: It is hard to say that the deaths of 3,000 people in the 9/11 attacks made all the inhumane and humiliating confessions of the CIA reasonable, but the truth is that the line between justice and evil has become increasingly blurred: All the realization of justice has become a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood.
Belief is a bit like an "unsolvable problem." Problems that can be solved with money are not problems: trade deficits, debt compensation, cost accounting, labor disputes, these are not problems, they are all problems that can be sat down or wrangled or wrangled or ugly, disgusting or vainly talkable, talking about nothing more than numbers The size and the conditions. Only when it comes to "belief", there is no way to say that fundamentalists just feel that they have engaged in a noble "jihad". It is a supreme honor to be able to sacrifice for their ideals, even if it is a terrorist attack, even if it is New York. There are 3,000 innocent civilians in the World Trade Center; or 200 innocent civilians on a Madrid train; or 52 innocent civilians on a bus that exploded in the morning rush hour of London traffic. There is no blaming meaning, but I think that humans have evolved over a million years; civilization has evolved for more than 6000 years. After many years, "tolerance" is still a concept that is difficult to root in the heart. "The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no cock crowing in thousands of miles", people's hearts are difficult and easy. Faith is precious and terrible.
On the other hand, the people who can organize terrorist groups to launch attacks must be well-kept people (for example, bin Laden is closely related to the Saudi royal family). In order to track down the informant's number, Dan, the lead CIA department director, flew to Kuwait to visit an oil merchant. This dude dressed in traditional Arabic clothes met Dan at the strip club and said: "You people are not my friends. You can't contact me by phone. Now you have to ask me before flying over to find me"; Dan said "How about that V10 Lamborghini? Is it enough for friends?" That's it: a Lamborghini, a monitored phone number. Just let the "I'm the fucking man who found this place" find Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
It has nothing to do with justice or evil.
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