The word "justice" in Obama The word "justice" was subverted in 2012's Zero Dark Thirty. People only see a tit-for-tat, an eye for an eye, torture and killing terrorists, money bribes to obtain clues, and bureaucracy to promote revenge. When SEAL Team Six finally moves, all we have to do is watch a special forces raid show and appreciate the violent aesthetics and that's enough.
At the beginning of the film, it is composed of a dark picture and dialogue, presenting a heavy event in a very special way. This is extremely sad. What the audience sees is only a long period of darkness, only to hear one after another cries for help echoing in the collapsed World Trade Center. Then, the protagonist of the film, Maya, a young American female intelligence officer, appeared in one secret detention location after another, and her colleagues tried every means to "dig out" valuable clues from the detained Muslim suspect population. , the process includes being exposed to nudity, humiliating on a leash, and tortured by noise, beatings, hunger, thirst, hanging, lack of sleep, cramped spaces, waterboarding, and more. As a result, Maya found clues to bin Laden's important messengers.
In order to bring the messenger to the surface, intelligence officers tried their best. When they rounded up an al-Qaeda leader, the crew, disguised in a female burqa, surrounded the park and captured the target. This episode is very similar to the real news report, the real scene is in the cemetery. When they wanted to get the phone number of the messenger's mother's house, the informant asked, "You guys are not my friends, you can't get in touch with me when you make phone calls, but now you have to ask me to fly over to find me." The intelligence agent said: "How about that V10 Lamborghini? Enough friends?" The phone number exchanged for the luxury car finally led to the exposure of the messenger.
The manhunt lasted for several years, cost US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, and the results were small, but seven CIA intelligence officers were set up to be killed. Officials kept quitting voluntarily or being transferred, and Maya persevered from start to finish, which was not done by the higher-ranking, more powerful, and better-conditioned men around her, who seemed lazy and incompetent. So she struggled with all kinds of resistance from colleagues, bosses, etc., which made her tired and angry, writing down the number of days since she found her hiding place outside her boss's office every day. When White House officials asked her who she was, she said: "I'm the one who fucking found this place!" When all the clues pointed to a house with a yard in Abbottabad, she said to all the hesitant decision makers "I'm 100% sure he's there, certainly 95% sure". When the mission was completed, Maya boarded the transport plane returning home. She no longer had the pleasure of achieving her goal, but cried silently.
People often wonder, what would happen if bin Laden was captured alive? A trial of the century? Sadly, killing bin Laden is the only prudent and practical measure. Doing justice by killing someone is a stereotyped and cruel concept of "justice". As Gandhi famously said, "Jiazhen will be rewarded, and the world will lose its light". There is never justice in the killing, even after a full judicial process, and the death penalty is finally executed. So, the movie shows all the negativity we should see, the mixed pragmatism, utilitarianism and politics, and the long shadow left by the war on terror.
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