But when it comes to a man's war, "The Hunt for Bin Laden" deserves it. Moreover, under the guidance of female director Catherine Bigelow, the war to hunt down the terrorist tycoon bin Laden has also become a war of a woman. After hitting a wall for the first time, he finally sensed bin Laden's whereabouts like a cocoon and slaughtered it in one fell swoop.
As a movie with the theme of assassination, the actual shooting scene in "Hunting Bin Laden" only accounts for the last 20 minutes of the 150-minute film. Moreover, these 20 minutes were also an uneven war, because bin Laden, who was the enemy, did not have any decent resistance at all, and the scene was completely in a situation of being tortured and killed. Even in the entire film, bin Laden, the primary enemy, never shows his face, only wiggling his gray beard in the body bag.
This is a typical "non-equilibrium war", or "asymmetric war". Of course, this asymmetry was first given to the United States by bin Laden. In an unconventional form of warfare, Arab extremists, attracted by the spirit of bin Laden, attacked Gemini in the United States in 2001, triggering the "September 11 Incident" that shocked the world. Most of the terrorist attacks on human beings are of an extraordinary scale, targeting civilians and causing panic. From the perspective of war, it violates the principle of justice of war and adopts unjust means in terms of means. Therefore, terrorist attacks have become the cancer of war. Modern warfare is more and more inclined to cause as few human sacrifices as possible, to destroy the opponent's operational mobility, and then to submit under powerful and powerless oppression as the combat purpose. But terrorists obviously do not have any ability to confront the regular army head-on, but this cannot be used as an excuse to sacrifice civilians to take unconventional means. Therefore, the initiation and confrontation of terrorist activities have become a dilemma. For terrorists, the only way to intimidate is to take action against civilians; for counter-terrorism, without sufficient information to support it, counter-terrorism will fall into a state of exhaustion and cannot be prevented. However, what has been agreed at present is that to destroy the economic support of terrorist organizations and eliminate terrorist leaders, the space for terrorist organizations' activities can be compressed to a large extent, and the occurrence of terrorist attacks can be minimized.
As a result, after the 9/11 incident, bin Laden quickly became the headline target of the US CIA, and he wanted to get rid of it. The story in "Hunting Bin Laden" starts from 9/11 and ends when bin Laden was killed in 2011. The time span of the movie story spans ten years, and it is uninterrupted, and there is no major leap. In this case, it is very difficult to tell the story in a complete and beautiful way.
But Catherine Bigelow deserves to be the best director at the Oscars. She uses a skilled script to interpret the whole story very smoothly without too much sense of inconsistency. It does not fall into a running account, nor does it appear too documentary, but subtly uses the perspective of a woman to delicately link the transition of time together. It can be said that this kind of setting is extraordinarily convenient, but the superb directing skills embed many thoughts and intentions that the director wants to express in the ingenuity, which is ingenious and makes the whole film very atmospheric.
The justice and injustice of war, the right and wrong of torture of prisoners, the powerlessness and tenacity of female characters, the daring and hypocrisy of politicians, and the serious distortion of human nature in war have all been revealed one by one, and every Everywhere is particularly worrying and alarming, making the audience also experience the helplessness and powerlessness when watching the film.
The heroine is called "Maya" instead of "Tanya", which is more neutral, and is more acceptable without being portrayed as a solitary hero. She followed bin Laden for twelve years, looking for clues about the tycoon, constantly weaving and hooking between the atlas and the names, breaking and connecting the clues, and then proceeding in a new direction. . Regarding the abuse of prisoners, from the initial discomfort to the final face, perhaps, in the eyes of her and her comrades, they abused one or two Arab prisoners and pulled out useful information from their mouths in the fastest way. , it can save the lives of more innocent civilians and between fire and water. A comparison with thousands of people makes them cruel enough to torture prisoners again and again. Get the desired result in an unethical form. This immoral and unjust behavior, the film did not evade at all, but filmed it with a calm and clear attitude. Like historical films, it's a part of reality that can't be avoided. As for criticism and questioning, it all depends on the audience themselves.
As the core character in the film, Jessica Chastain perfectly presented the inner world of "Maya", especially when bin Laden's body was transported back, the moment he got the news, between an expression, The complex inner world is shown, which makes the audience move, and it is very common to see the skills of the actors. And Kathryn Bigelow's exploration of actors' performance skills is also evident. "The Hurt Locker" made the little-known Jeremy Renner an instant hit, and "The Hunt for Bin Laden" also brought out Jason Clarke's acting skills. Check out Jason Clarke's next movies: "Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Dawn", "Terminator: Genesis" and see how popular this guy is. In addition, people like Kyle Chandler have also been shown to varying degrees.
A good director, a good actor who has been trained in the initial state, and then added a wonderful script, makes this "Hunting Bin Laden" look extraordinarily good-looking and also extraordinarily thought-provoking.
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