"If it’s not 0%, it’s 100%" female intuition

Carmelo 2021-10-20 17:34:52

I just spent nearly three hours watching this movie. As a foreigner, I don’t know anything about September 11, the CIA and the assassination of Bin Laden. What I want to talk about is still the "daughter plot" in Bigelow's movie; Maya played by Chastain plays a female detective who is particularly timid about interrogating prisoners to being able to speak loudly in front of the officer. The chief who controlled the overall situation and even commanded the assassination in the end was a very long process, and without lamenting that this woman's youth was dedicated to the country.

There was such a dialogue in the film, the male chief asked her, how long have you been here? "Twelve years." Then, is there anything besides Bin Laden in your life? "No." Her living environment is both oppressive and oppressive. The mission is like a muddy water and once you step in, you can't turn your head back. I believe such factors make Maya hardly hesitate to make a choice in the end.

At 00:30, you can feel that most men in the film are more suspicious than women; men demand evidence, and women believe in their own instincts. However, because of this, the two scenes and the only two heroines in the film have completely different endings and Outcome:

First, Maya’s colleague and friend Jessica believed that misinformation was killed by a suicide bomber. Second, Maya used 100% certainty to persuade the troops to attack Bin Laden’s residence and successfully complete the mission.

This contrast makes women's intuition seem like a polarization of "if it's not 0%, it's 100%."

I can't help but associate Maya in the early morning secret order with the growth process of the Silent Lamb Clarice, but Maya, who faces life-threatening at this moment and also experienced the bombing of his teammates, appears to be more collapsed and stronger.
I have watched the works of the two actresses of this year separately in the past two days. To be honest, I like Jessica Chastain's performances, especially the explosions and collapses that really caught my heart.

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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."