Version -- 1. Zero Dark Thirty. Photos Top cast Edit. Jessica Chastain Maya as Maya. Mark Strong George as George. Jason Clarke Dan as Dan. Reda Kateb Ammar as Ammar. Jennifer Ehle Jessica as Jessica. Harold Perrineau Jack as Jack. Jeremy Strong Thomas as Thomas. Kandel J. Kathryn Bigelow. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees, but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tactics.
For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in , it appears that her work will pay off, and a U. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is. The greatest manhunt in history. Drama History Thriller War. Rated R for strong violence including brutal disturbing images, and for language.
Did you know Edit. Trivia The movie was originally about the unsuccessful decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden. The screenplay was completely re-written after bin Laden was killed. To establish a baseline of moral awareness, she shows her heroine—a C. Maya is also shown standing mutely by when the detainee is strung up by ropes, stripped naked, and forced to crawl in a dog collar. In reality, when the C. The fight went all the way to the top of the Bush Administration.
Bigelow airbrushes out this showdown, as she does virtually the entire debate during the Bush years about the treatment of detainees. Bigelow has portrayed herself as a reluctant truth-teller.
But it was. In addition to excising the moral debate that raged over the interrogation program during the Bush years, the film also seems to accept almost without question that the C. But this claim has been debunked, repeatedly, by reliable sources with access to the facts.
Feinstein and Levin noted that a third detainee in C. Top senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee have amplified that position in additional interviews this week.
It was a lot of good intelligence-gathering from the Obama and Bush administrations, continuity of effort, holding people at Gitmo, putting the puzzle together over a long period of time—not torture.
What we are shown is the apparent sheer will to destroy the United States and its allies, as suggested only by implication by the depictions of attacks in London, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and the failed attack in Times Square in Rather, those whose reasons are established at the outset are American torturers and civilians who accept or justify torture. The movie suggests that those whose response to the attacks remains at the level of horror and anger are likely to accept extreme and morally repellent measures taken against anyone who seems connected with the perpetrators—and that these people hold a fanatical commitment to the death of bin Laden, a form of vengeance as justice.
Did Maya not have sex for ten years? Did she have no family with whom she communicates, no friends with whom she discusses her work, her obsession with catching bin Laden, her ideas about life in general?
What did she put on hold in her pursuit for bin Laden? Why did she accept? Maya, like all the characters, like anyone, is filled with thoughts, with an endless flow of internal monologue, with ideas and memories, self-justifications and self-doubts.
For instance: there were plenty of explosions worldwide in the decade that followed September 11, Why does Bigelow show only ones associated with Al Qaeda?
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