[63][64] Hersh's U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources stated that the U.S. had learned of bin Laden's location through an ISI walk-in[clarification needed] seeking the $25 million reward and not through tracking a courier; this had been previously reported by R.J. Hillhouse and was afterward partly supported by NBC News.

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This explanation is ridiculous. Hollywood observers blame political controversy for killing the film's chances with Academy Voters. [26] Parts of the film were shot in Mani Majra. "[86], Journalist Michael Wolff slammed the film as a "nasty piece of pulp and propaganda" and Bigelow as a "fetishist and sadist" for distorting history with a pro-torture viewpoint. The storm happens again and this makes his dog go crazy. Struggles to breathe. Ammar provides unreliable information on a suspected attack in Saudi Arabia, but reveals the name of the personal courier for bin Laden, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. Curtis agrees.

Or is it her kinda because confused or stuck in the middle as to what is next in her life? While the illness has gotten worse, he also feels the support he has from his family to fight it.

A case manager that liked the Abu Ahmed lead shares with her an interrogation with a Jordanian detainee claiming to have buried Abu Ahmed in 2001. The second option is that his paranoia has somehow rubbed on to his wife and kid. Embattled Felicity Huffman wants her passport back, Trump and Biden trade barbs over personal finances, Ex-49ers star gets 15 years to life in rape conviction, Snowden granted permanent residency in Russia, As cold weather nears, millions could have power shut off, COVID-19 superspreader events have experts worried, Questions swirl after pope's bombshell endorsement, No black sheep here: Pistachio is a green (yes, green) puppy, Bowden: I wanted to live so I could vote for Trump, Adviser hits Trump's use of Hunter Biden story, Documents in Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein case unsealed. This dream is so scary for Curtis that he wets his bed. I heard that a woman was there on the night of the raid as one of the CIA's liaison officers on the ground – and that was the start of it." 157 minutes: Country: United States: Language: English: Budget: $40 million: Box office: $132.8 million But now you will be remembered forever as torture's handmaiden. SEALs Turned Authors: A Military Reading List, Q&A: Mark Duplass Is the Hardest Working Man in Hollywood, 'Zero Dark Thirty' gets early awards season boost, Zero Dark Thirty: More clamour for Osama drama, New York Film Critics: A Perfect Score for. But he and his team leader remember how their superiors wanted to reproduce a psychological torture technique they had seen on their office TV screen: a mock electrocution, whereby a detainee would hear the screams of someone they presumed to be another detainee coming from the room next door. It's a feedback loop. [50], Zero Dark Thirty was listed on many critics' top ten lists. Electronic Arts donates $1 to nonprofit organizations that support veterans for each Zero Dark Thirty map pack sold. Is there a clip of the scene from Star Trek Insurrection where Son'a cries out "Noooo!" Jessica Chastain stars as Maya, a fictional CIA intelligence analyst, with Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, James Gandolfini, Kyle Chandler, Stephen Dillane, Chris Pratt, Édgar Ramírez, Fares Fares, Jennifer Ehle, John Barrowman, Mark Duplass, and Frank Grillo in supporting roles. The film's working title was For God and Country. Dream 8. Let’s recap some of the key things that have happened in the movie so far: – The storms, with severe tornadoes, appear in Curtis’ dreams alone. – All his nightmares have the storms and torrential rains. Production Edit Titles Edit. Dog attacks Curtis and he wakes up. [100] Critic Andrew O'Hehir said that the filmmaker's position on torture in the film is ambiguous, and creative choices were made and the film poses "excellent questions for us to ask ourselves, arguably defining questions of the age, and I think the longer you look at them the thornier they get". She has no friends and no other life to go home to. And it goes one step further by claiming fidelity to "actual events.".

"[102] In February 2013 in the Wall Street Journal, Boal responded to the Senate critics, being quoted as saying "[D]oes that mean they can use the movie as a political platform to talk about what they've been wanting to talk about for years and years and years? Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. So the three of them rush to the finished storm shelter. The movie is about a couple – Curtis (Michael) and Samantha (Jessica) living with their deaf daughter Hannah. And one of the most-cited shows that cadets used to argue for torture was 24. Curtis runs after her. Samantha asks if she was in his last dream. [77] Jesse David Fox writes that the film "doesn't explicitly say that torture caught bin Laden, but in portraying torture as one part of the successful search, it can be read that way. Exhaustion? The dreams also include him getting attacked by the people he knows and love. Additional maps for the game were made available on December 19, to coincide with the film's initial release. But what Boal/Bigelow fail to show is how often the CIA deluded itself into believing that torture was a magic bullet, with disastrous results. Panetta said waterboarding was among the techniques used. It questions what was done in the name of finding bin Laden. The film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks. The film's working title was For God and Country. Effectively, Curtis is cutting off from everyone who has posed as a threat in his dreams. Screen Reader Users: To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our Flixster.com website, which has the same tickets as our Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com websites. Why does everyone and their mom love game of thrones?

"[81], The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch publicized CIA and U.S. Defense Department documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, and alleged that "unusual access to agency information" was granted to the filmmakers. Later Curtis’ brother shows up and tells him to stop building the shelter. But that doesn’t mean the end of the movie is predictable — so you should stop reading here if you haven’t already seen it. These charges, along with charges of other leaks to the media, became a prevalent election season talking point by conservatives. And, importantly, whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved. In 2005, Faraj denies knowing about a courier named Abu Ahmed; Maya interprets this as an attempt by Faraj to conceal the importance of Abu Ahmed. [83], In June 2013, an unreleased U.S. Defense Department Inspector General's office report stated that former CIA Director Leon Panetta, while giving a presentation at a private awards ceremony, disclosed information classified as "Secret" and "Top Secret" regarding personnel involved in the raid on the Bin Laden compound. The impending storm is real and they are all doomed as he has foreseen in his dreams. Critic Katey Rich of The Guardian said: "Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year. There are many other ways in which torture's verifiable costs have outstripped its supposed gains, including grave costs to intelligence and military operations. He knows Samantha shows him support. Back then, many interrogators told me they lacked adequate training, and fewer had field experience. [103], In an interview with Time magazine, Bigelow said: "I'm proud of the movie, and I stand behind it completely. This would be a very Night Shyamalan type of ending. The third option is that the last scene is not real. Senator John McCain, who was tortured during his time as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, said that the film left him sick – "because it's wrong". In May 2011, elite Navy SEALs launch a nighttime strike against bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, killing him.

"[6] Critic Frank Bruni concluded that the film appears to suggest "No waterboarding, no Bin Laden". At work Curtis hears thunder when there are no clouds. Movies Section: What is your favorite movie with Jeff Bridges? It is a stormy evening when Curtis walks to his kitchen. The website's critical consensus reads, "Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliantly crafted, Zero Dark Thirty dramatizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden with intelligence and an eye for detail. It was the site's best-reviewed film of 2012. [101], Screenwriter Boal described the pro-torture accusations as "preposterous", stating that "it's just misreading the film to say that it shows torture leading to the information about bin Laden", while director Bigelow added: "Do I wish [torture] was not part of that history? ", In the book, Torture Team, author Philippe Sands describes how Army Lieutenant Colonel Diane Beaver, the staff judge advocate at Guantanamo, had witnessed the effect of Fox's anti-terrorism thriller 24 on the base. Interrogators even copied the methods of show's protagonist, Agent Jack Bauer, she said: "You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas. [32] The score, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, was released as a soundtrack album by Madison Gate Records on December 19, 2012. [80] The CIA responded to Congressman King writing, "the protection of national security equities – including the preservation of our ability to conduct effective counterterrorism operations – is the decisive factor in determining how the CIA engages with filmmakers and the media as a whole. Curtis confirms. It means it is a part of the story we couldn't ignore. That doesn't mean it was the key to finding Bin Laden. [38], Richard Corliss's review in Time magazine called it "a fine" movie and "a police procedural on the grand scale", saying it "blows Argo out of the water". Perhaps the last time they did this, Dewart got too drunk and his wife blames Curtis for it. Or take the often-cited "ticking time bomb" situation used to justify torture.

"Whether it's the president in the show or Jack Bauer or the other characters, they're always trying to make the best choice with a series of bad options ... and you have to weigh the costs and benefits of a series of unpalatable alternatives," Chertoff said.

This is Take Shelter explained. [13], In January 2013, Reuters reported that the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would review the contacts between the CIA and the filmmakers to find out whether Bigelow and Boal had inappropriate access to classified information. In 2009, during the Camp Chapman attack, Maya's fellow officer and friend Jessica is killed by a suicide bomber. Zero Dark Thirty was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 85th Academy Awards: Best Picture, "[71], The distributor Columbia Pictures, sensitive to political perceptions, considered rescheduling the film release for as late as early 2013. Maya and her CIA team in Pakistan use electronic methods to eventually pinpoint a caller in a moving vehicle who exhibits behaviors that delay confirmation of his identity (which Maya calls tradecraft, thus confirming that the subject is likely a senior courier).

[95], National security reporter Spencer Ackerman said the film "does not present torture as a silver bullet that led to bin Laden; it presents torture as the ignorant alternative to that silver bullet". [27] Local members of Hindu nationalist parties protested, expressing anti-bin Laden and anti-Pakistan sentiments as they objected to Pakistani locations being portrayed on Indian soil. It removes any doubt that war criminals ran this country for seven years". When they wake, Samantha and Hannah have taken off their masks. But the storm is way more powerful in Curtis’ mind while in reality, it’s not that bad. The visions he was seeing were not delusions.