In the bomb disposal unit, Bigelow spent a lot of effort to describe the supporting role, trying to create a contrast. The black sergeant and James had a serious conflict. The sergeant only wanted to bring his comrades home, while James was obsessed with self-realization. (Although James also had doubts about himself, such as going to the child's house to apologize). In the end, other people return to life with pain, but James can only return to the war-on the battlefield, he is human.
In Zero Point, most people's images are extremely vague, both foe and foe are degraded to the background, and the director's pen and ink is spent on the protagonist. The audience witnessed Maya's step by step from an ordinary high school student to a killing machine. The people around him either did nothing all day long, or withdrew in order to preserve the remaining humanity. "Open your eyes and see the reality. Only those who are still moving forward are left. You’re just one!”
Someone said that the death of a female colleague in the middle of the film eliminated the last possibility of Maya’s return to humanity, but during the bomb disposal, the tragic death of his teammates never really touched James. Instead, it stimulated him to lead the team to revenge, almost. Killed another comrade in arms. In fact, for people like them, ordinary people's feelings and ethics are not important, and ordinary people's values are meaningless. They are only related to what they want to care about.
At the climax of the film, the senior CIA officials bluntly denied Maya’s judgment ("Saddam is more likely to have WMD than this"), but Panetta did not rush to conclusions, but found Maya privately. He did not ask her how to prove her judgment, but asked her how she entered the CIA, how many years she had worked, and why she was so obsessed with bin Laden. There is also the key sentence: "Do you know why we do this? (referring to training new people without any social experience as agents)" Panetta's implicit line is, "You are our Joan of Arc, your words If we don’t listen, who else can we listen to?”
In Luc Besson’s lens, Joan of Arc is like a mentally disordered patient. So pure and flawless, and so terrible, and it happened that Joan of Arc led her people to victory. Similarly, in Bigelow’s story, another crazy monster leads a big ship full of blind sheep, heading unknown.
At the end of the film, Maya sat alone in the empty cabin, crying silently, for the loss of humanity and the return of humanity. At least, at this moment, she finally got rid of the CIA, got rid of the 3,000 dead, and got rid of bin Laden. , Got rid of the identity of the saint.
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