This isn't a icing on the cake for a movie. . .

Yasmin 2022-04-22 07:01:04

Originally, I was only impressed by the torture and extortion of confessions at the beginning of the film. Later, I admired the persistence and persistence of the heroine. Later, I was only left with deep confusion about the whole movie, because at first I just felt that a female director wanted to strike while the iron was hot. but found that it actually left too many reflections and doubts.

Let's talk about the torture to extract confessions at the beginning. Personally, I feel that in terms of cruelty, it is incomparable with the method used by Wang Lijun that I saw on the Internet a while ago. Of course, the restricted level of the movie may be one of the reasons. But looking at those bridges in it, I still feel that the US military tormenting people is really self-contained.

The first is physical torture, whipping, torture, all kinds of torture instruments are greeted, and you will cry. The waterboarding seems to be very tortured. The fear of suffocation and the feeling of dying should be more profound than pure pain.

Then there is no sleep, and the lights are turned on for the whole night, and the music is very loud and loud, which makes people exhausted physically and mentally and in a trance. Food and water have also become luxuries.

The third is the mental humiliation. Let a lady stand by and watch you stripped naked, kneel on the ground with a dog chain naked, and be led around everywhere. Finally, you have to be locked in a very small, airtight dark room. cage.

Another thing is to maintain the ups and downs of various feelings. He will not always treat you very badly or very badly. Occasionally, when your body is almost exhausted, he will add some food and drink to you, and then sit with you, like an old man. Friends greeting you like chatting, caring about you, when you can't get the information you want, you will take away all the good, continue to torture you, and keep repeating, if u are not tell the truth, I will If you hurt you and so on, let it become your dream, from the region to heaven, and then from heaven to hell, it is very difficult to be numb, always repeating the taste of loss, it is true that few people can survive live.


Bin Laden and the other two neighbors, the background of which is not explained in the film, but they should not be terrorists, otherwise they would have been killed long ago, and they would not have left so many children and women. Then an operation against terrorists. The first was to arrive by plane without informing the Pakistani government. Then a bunch of Flying Tigers, armed with guns and explosives, blasted open door after door, killing people one by one who had no idea what was going on inside, regardless of gender or background.

Just imagine, one day, someone suddenly opened the door of your house with a bomb, shot your father, forced your mother to kneel on the ground and surrendered, or shot your mother directly, and did not forget to make up on the corpse. Get on the gun, make sure you're dead, then point the gun at you, don't let you cry, pat the buttocks and leave after killing people, leaving behind dead bodies, blood and bullet casings, as well as fragments of bombs and planes outside the house The wreckage, and in the end this matter will come to an end, neither the law nor the government will take responsibility for your family's death, who made you unlucky to become bin Laden's neighbor?

When I watched the last scene, I had some doubts in my heart. When I was not sure which of the three households was bin Laden, why didn't the three households explode at the same time, in case any sound disturbed bin Laden and took the opportunity to escape? And the terrified cries of a group of children, the sound of gunshots and explosions, and the sound of bullets landing after they were unsheathed were not light. Even the people around them attracted a lot of people. How could bin Laden be so easily Or was it killed easily after the other two were blown up? As the leader of al-Qaeda, there is no minimum protection. Without bodyguards, you can at least hide in the basement or other secret rooms. As long as it takes a little time, the official Pakistani people will arrive. If the US military cannot find the target, it should not be Will you stay there for a long time? !

The funny thing is that in two of the scenes, the surrounding people heard the sound, and one of the US troops stepped forward to organize their approach. When speaking in Arabic, it was of no use at all. The crowd continued to approach, and then became anxious, speaking in English. , dont come, after they will kill you, the crowd immediately stood still, not daring to move forward. The children in the house also forced themselves to stop crying immediately after hearing English. I didn't know what was going on in the West and the Muslim world, so I wondered what kind of image the American GI was in the eyes of this group of Muslim civilians.

In the end, the heroine who organized and planned the hunting operation made great efforts, and sat alone in an empty plane and shed tears. The movie came to an abrupt end. Is she mourning a moment of silence for her friends and colleagues who shared the same aspirations but died fighting terrorists, or is she mourning the 12 years she spent tracking down bin Laden and al Qaeda? Alone, weeping. Seeing people sigh.

When I thought of Oscar, I just heard that hunting bin Laden was suspected of building momentum for Obama's second term, but after watching the movie, I felt that Oscar's remarks with strong political overtones were not false at all. The reason why it missed all kinds of awards is because it is not the main theme.

The director who hunted bin Laden dared to film it in this way, not for the icing on the cake, but to tell the American people that their safety is based on the sacrifice of countless police and intelligence personnel, and it is based on their The basis that countries can go in and out of other countries, shoot and kill civilians, is based on the acceptance or mental or physical torture, fear of those who take a different stand from them.

Of course, this is just a movie, not necessarily the whole truth.

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Zero Dark Thirty quotes

  • Dan: [to detainee] Hey, what do you like? You like a bit of... You guys like a bit of Bob Marley? Bit of reggae? Kick back, take it easy after you've blown some shit up?

  • Dan: They killed my monkeys.