Sometimes it is not a good thing to do your homework too solidly. For a film adapted from a real event, if the entire process of the event is clearly understood in advance, then for the viewer, the film only shows the event as an image, and more than 90% of your brain's work They are all checking whether the progress of the film matches your prior knowledge. Only by getting rid of the stereotyped thinking, can we see more from the film.
After graduating from high school, the heroine Maya was absorbed into the CIA to engage in intelligence work. From being unable to look directly at the cruel confession when she first arrived on the front line to having no pressure to preside over the forced confession, 12 years of hunting work left her physically and mentally exhausted. But she hasn't made much progress, she has no personal life to speak of, and bin Laden's clues are cut off. On the contrary, a close colleague was killed, and the boss also resigned due to a drone bombing investigation. Perhaps it was not until the Director of the CIA unexpectedly appeared across the Maya table in the cafeteria that she realized how unreliable she had been in the past ten years. Watching the president give a televised speech, utterly denying prisoner abuse and guaranteeing the moral bottom line of Americans, she knew that all this was a lie. I think all she can do is to make herself insensitive.
It is obvious that Bigelow is not trying to create a hero, but a victim.
None of the clues collected by Maya can prove that Bin Laden is hiding here: the identity of the messenger Abu Ahmed comes from intelligence 7 years ago; his current location was bought with a Lamborghini from a Kuwaiti informant. All seniors believe that there is only a 60% chance that Bin Laden is here, but Maya insists on 100%.
The final hunt is completely loyal to the officially announced process. If viewers who have never watched the film or do not understand the facts and background think that this action is clean and fully demonstrated the bravery of the US military, then you are very wrong. Regardless of the "facts" or the film, this section can only be described as an extra-juncture. First, the US military helicopter crashed due to hot air, and then guessed on the third floor that the iron gate of Bin Laden’s hiding place could not be opened for a while. Finally, the US military's "secret" operation attracted the whole village's onlookers. We don't care if it was bin Laden that killed him. This is a stark irony of the U.S. war on terrorism.
In the end, Maya visually confirmed the identity of the corpse. I believe this was just her wishful thinking, because she couldn't stand it any longer. Boarding the retreat charter flight, Maya's tears may contain relief, emptiness, or guilt, but there is absolutely no joy.
Al-Qaeda said that the jihad can and will go on forever, and it will go on for centuries. The US military’s war on terrorism cannot be concluded in a short period of time. At this point in the war, there is no longer a confrontation between good and evil. All that is left is endless blood debt and blood repayment. These creatures' charity was not caused by a few terrorists alone, and these horrors are not something that can be stopped by killing a few Osama bin Laden. The same tragedy has been staged from the Crusades hundreds of years ago, but humans do not seem to intend to learn any lessons from it.
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