We live in a time of killing

Pamela 2022-03-18 09:01:03

If you don't feel the shock and impact of the 9/11 incident in the United States, then you can't fully understand the spiritual impact of Zero Dark Thirty and the workaholic spirit of the heroine Maya as a CIA spy. Although director Kathryn Bigelow filmed this controversial film in the form of a documentary, without leaning on anyone's position or emotion, but in the heroine Maya's loneliness and no turning back, you feel To the enormous pressure and consequences that 9/11 brought to the world. If a person does not devote all his efforts to his own essential work, he will not achieve great results, and what drives a person to work frantically may not be money, but a spirit, a spirit of revenge for those who died on 9/11, and a spirit of revenge for those who died on 9/11. The determination of his dead friend and colleague Xuehen.

The 9/11 incident not only brought a heavy blow to the United States in terms of economy, humanity and spirituality, but also brought a terrifying shadow to people all over the world. Back then, many Chinese people felt gloating over the 9/11 attack on the United States, but they did not know that 9/11 changed not only the United States, but also the pattern of peace in the world. Since then, the shadow of terror has rewritten all peaceful lives, and also changed everyone's life and perspective on the world. At the very least, when traveling, you will not enjoy the possibility of registration-free inspection, and you cannot carry a bottle of water on the plane. The mentality that once boarded the plane to fly to any country without worry is gone. Don't tell me that terrorism has nothing to do with you, and don't gloat at the terrorist attacks suffered by other countries and people. If you don't have a humanistic mentality to look at things, many things can be irrelevant and hang up.

From this point of view, Katherine's views on terrorism have become clear, reflected in the body of CIA agent Maya. Maybe counter-terrorism is just a job, but when your friends and colleagues are killed by terrorists, the job has become a tool of revenge, an outlet for spiritual sustenance. This is also the film's rationale for the torture of terrorists by CIA agents, because torture may prevent the next terrorist attack, provide a possibility of saving civilians' chances of survival, and make the horrors that have occurred around the world since 9/11. Write activities with commas, if not periods. As the movie said through the mouths of the agents, when the 9/11 incident killed more than 3,000 innocent lives, humanity no longer existed, and the terrorists were treated just like their own people.

The darkness at 12:30 in the morning is not only the darkness of the night when bin Laden was shot, it is also a metaphor for the terror that hangs in everyone's minds in the twelve years since 9/11 to the end of the shooting of bin Laden dark. The darkness before dawn is always the most dangerous, but no matter what heralds the arrival of dawn, perhaps 12:30 in the morning is also the meaning of this. If you want to watch a movie for entertainment or if you like the thrill of an action movie, then this movie is definitely not for you. Because it tells the story of the CIA's 12-year pursuit of bin Laden and the heavy price paid in this action in the most calm and objective manner. This is a dark and lonely movie, and all the ways of telling are full of depression and dullness, but this kind of depression and dullness is indeed what humans experience when they kill each other, and it is also the true face of this real world. After watching this movie, you will feel that superheroes are just kindergarten dreams, Hollywood action blockbusters are just entertainment box office, and what really accompanies us is the savage world, and killing each other in this world And the ignorance of defending a certain morality or doctrine.

I don't think this is a feature film about assassinating terrorists, because after watching it, your heart is as heavy as the heroine Maya, and at the end you don't know where you are and where your heart is. In the twelve years of chasing and killing terror, I have also become the target of terrorists' assassination. I am used to seeing the killing scenes, and my heart is covered with desert ashes. That kind of loss and hesitation is more spiritual. Nothing left. She knows that terrorists will not disappear because of bin Laden, and facing human beings is the endless spiritual darkness. In a sense, this film makes me feel disappointed in human nature, which has transcended the category of country and nation, and it has transcended the category of nation, but a reflection on human beings. For those who say that the film promotes American spirit and ideology and thus resists, I would say that Zero Dark Thirty is trying to articulate the panic that human beings should face. We live in an era full of killing, and the only thing that remains is our compassionate heart. If this is gone, then there is no hope. At this point, I pay tribute to director Kathryn Bigelow, who, from her Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" onwards, has revealed her compassion for the world and human beings through the cruelty and inhumanity of war that she described in film language. And this scan of humanity has become a registered trademark of her films.

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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."