Walk with the devil

Katheryn 2021-10-20 17:34:51

Like Catherine Bigelow’s last Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker," "The Hunt for Bin Laden" is very sensitive in content and does not lack attractive elements at all, but the director's handling is very calm. In the two-and-a-half-hour movie, most of the time the plot is plain and unremarkable. There is no thrilling car chase, gunfight, no gorgeous display of high-tech tracking, no fast editing and dazzling lens application. The film is almost entirely documentary. Style description: a lot of close-ups, DV style of handheld photography, extremely restrained soundtrack and sound effects... the

last 20 minutes of the film is tense and shocking, extremely catching, this night raid scene is neatly arranged and full of power. In fact, the whole "The Hunt for Bin Laden" is not dull and boring at all. The inner tension, the silent struggle and pain in the protagonist's heart, and the tragic losses suffered by both sides in this inhumane war all make us feel real. Incomparable-after finishing bin Laden and the helicopter returning home, the soundtrack of the film was still gloomy, even with a bit of tragic taste, without the heroic passionate melody. And at the beginning of the film, the director strongly expressed the torture and torture of prisoners in the base by the United States-this is not the so-called "American theme" movie at all, and its temperament is very close to Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday" Pilberg's "Munich" is an attempt to reproduce history as objectively and calmly as possible, presenting reality on the screen, instead of imposing one's own ideas on the audience, or pleasing the public with people's curiosity and entertainment on major events. If you regard this kind of guest view as a kind of golden mean, you can only say: sometimes no attitude is an attitude.

"The Hunt for Bin Laden" is more mature, detailed, and calm than "The Hurt Locker", and more deeply explores the irrationality, cruelty, and distortion of warfare. This is not an advocacy of American victory, but a revelation and questioning of the world sleeping at midnight at midnight.

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Zero Dark Thirty quotes

  • Dan: He's being a dick.

    Joseph Bradley: He's trying to outsmart you. Why don't you tell him about your Ph.D?

  • Dan: State your request.

    Maya: Move Heaven and Earth and bring me this fuckng Sayeed's family phone number.

    Dan: Okay, I'll go and talk to "The Wolf."