Zero Dark Thirty

[ayyub]

Just saw Zero Dark Thirty, can't comment on it's historical accuracy but as I a film I found it entertaining. Did anyone else see it? Any thoughts?

[Magnus]

I found it entertaining and thought it presented a relatively credible narrative, as these things go. The film can easily be perceived to legitimize torture, which is a bit disturbing, though I have little doubt that most if not all people will tell what they know if subjected to the now infamous simulated drowning the americans seem to favor as their go-to method of "enhanced interrogation".

(The heroine's line about how she didn't want to employ "you guys with your dip and your velcro" go a laugh out of me, probably because it sums up the whole special forces machismo rather well)

[ayyub]

I found it entertaining and thought it presented a relatively credible narrative, as these things go. The film can easily be perceived to legitimize torture, which is a bit disturbing, though I have little doubt that most if not all people will tell what they know if subjected to the now infamous simulated drowning the americans seem to favor as their go-to method of "enhanced interrogation".

Strangely I did not see it as legitimizing torture, and I am very anti-torture (I'm with Shepard Smith, "WE DO NOT TORTURE!"). The way I viewed it was we did torture (unfortunately) and the people who did it probably felt it was justified and a useful tactic, thus the characters in the movie would be written in that light. It is similar to Quentin Tarantino's defenses for his movie 'Django Unchained'.