We live in a time of killing

Pamela 2022-03-18 09:01:03

If you don't feel the shock and impact of the 9/11 incident in the United States, then you can't fully understand the spiritual impact of Zero Dark Thirty and the workaholic spirit of the heroine Maya as a CIA spy. Although director Kathryn Bigelow filmed this controversial film in the form of a documentary, without leaning on anyone's position or emotion, but in the heroine Maya's loneliness and no turning back, you feel To the enormous pressure and consequences that 9/11 brought to the world. If a person does not devote all his efforts to his own essential work, he will not achieve great results, and what drives a person to work frantically may not be money, but a spirit, a spirit of revenge for those who died on 9/11, and a spirit of revenge for those who died on 9/11. The determination of his dead friend and colleague Xuehen.

The 9/11 incident not only brought a heavy blow to the United States in terms of economy, humanity and spirituality, but also brought a terrifying shadow to people all over the world. Back then, many Chinese people felt gloating over the 9/11 attack on the United States, but they did not know that 9/11 changed not only the United States, but also the pattern of peace in the world. Since then, the shadow of terror has rewritten all peaceful lives, and also changed everyone's life and perspective on the world. At the very least, when traveling, you will not enjoy the possibility of registration-free inspection, and you cannot carry a bottle of water on the plane. The mentality that once boarded the plane to fly to any country without worry is gone. Don't tell me that terrorism has nothing to do with you, and don't gloat at the terrorist attacks suffered by other countries and people. If you don't have a humanistic mentality to look at things, many things can be irrelevant and hang up.

From this point of view, Katherine's views on terrorism have become clear, reflected in the body of CIA agent Maya. Maybe counter-terrorism is just a job, but when your friends and colleagues are killed by terrorists, the job has become a tool of revenge, an outlet for spiritual sustenance. This is also the film's rationale for the torture of terrorists by CIA agents, because torture may prevent the next terrorist attack, provide a possibility of saving civilians' chances of survival, and make the horrors that have occurred around the world since 9/11. Write activities with commas, if not periods. As the movie said through the mouths of the agents, when the 9/11 incident killed more than 3,000 innocent lives, humanity no longer existed, and the terrorists were treated just like their own people.

The darkness at 12:30 in the morning is not only the darkness of the night when bin Laden was shot, it is also a metaphor for the terror that hangs in everyone's minds in the twelve years since 9/11 to the end of the shooting of bin Laden dark. The darkness before dawn is always the most dangerous, but no matter what heralds the arrival of dawn, perhaps 12:30 in the morning is also the meaning of this. If you want to watch a movie for entertainment or if you like the thrill of an action movie, then this movie is definitely not for you. Because it tells the story of the CIA's 12-year pursuit of bin Laden and the heavy price paid in this action in the most calm and objective manner. This is a dark and lonely movie, and all the ways of telling are full of depression and dullness, but this kind of depression and dullness is indeed what humans experience when they kill each other, and it is also the true face of this real world. After watching this movie, you will feel that superheroes are just kindergarten dreams, Hollywood action blockbusters are just entertainment box office, and what really accompanies us is the savage world, and killing each other in this world And the ignorance of defending a certain morality or doctrine.

I don't think this is a feature film about assassinating terrorists, because after watching it, your heart is as heavy as the heroine Maya, and at the end you don't know where you are and where your heart is. In the twelve years of chasing and killing terror, I have also become the target of terrorists' assassination. I am used to seeing the killing scenes, and my heart is covered with desert ashes. That kind of loss and hesitation is more spiritual. Nothing left. She knows that terrorists will not disappear because of bin Laden, and facing human beings is the endless spiritual darkness. In a sense, this film makes me feel disappointed in human nature, which has transcended the category of country and nation, and it has transcended the category of nation, but a reflection on human beings. For those who say that the film promotes American spirit and ideology and thus resists, I would say that Zero Dark Thirty is trying to articulate the panic that human beings should face. We live in an era full of killing, and the only thing that remains is our compassionate heart. If this is gone, then there is no hope. At this point, I pay tribute to director Kathryn Bigelow, who, from her Oscar-winning film "The Hurt Locker" onwards, has revealed her compassion for the world and human beings through the cruelty and inhumanity of war that she described in film language. And this scan of humanity has become a registered trademark of her films.

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  • Anne 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    My eyes are not blind

  • Jabari 2021-10-20 19:02:48

    "In the past eight years, I have done nothing except to capture bin Laden." Either 2 stars or 4 stars. I don’t catch a cold political theme + lengthy and boring, but the shocking real background and the half-hour silence is better than the sound. The movie made by this goddamn woman is more manly than a man, and deserves the Oscar to abandon you, because nominating you is equivalent to All other male directors have to die.

Zero Dark Thirty quotes

  • Maya: Dan, Debbie found Abu Ahmed.

    Dan: Really?

    Maya: Yeah. He's been in the files this whole time. The family's named Sayeed.

    Dan: Okay, but he's, uh, he's dead, so doesn't that make him a little less interesting to you?

    Maya: He may not be. We now know Abu Ahmed is one of eight brothers. All the brothers in the family look alike. Three of them went to Afghanistan. Isn't it possible that when the three eldest brothers grew beards in Afghanistan, they started to look alike? I think the one calling himself Abu Ahmed is still alive. The picture we've been using is wrong. It's of his older brother, Habeeb. He's the one that's dead.

    Dan: Okay, and what are you basing this on?

    Maya: We have no intercepts about Abu Ahmed dying, we just have a detainee who said he buried a guy who looked like Abu Ahmed. But if someone as important as Abu Ahmed had died, they'd be talking about it online in chat rooms all over the place. Plus, the detainee said that Habeeb died in 2001. We know Abu Ahmed was alive then, trying to get into Tora Bora with Ammar. That means it's probably one of the other brothers that's dead.

    Dan: In other words, you want it to be true.

    Maya: Yes, I fucking want it to be true!

    Dan: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down. Calm down.

    Maya: I am calm.

  • George: I want to make something absolutely clear. If you thought there was some secret cell somewhere, working al-Qaeda, then I want you to know that you're wrong. This is it. There's no working group coming to the rescue. There's nobody else hidden away on some other floor. There is just us. And we are failing. We're spending billions of dollars. People are dying! We are still no closer to defeating our enemy. They attacked us! On land, in '98. By sea, in 2000. And from the air, in 2001. They murdered 3,000 of our citizens in cold blood. And they have slaughtered our forward deployed! And what the fuck have we done about it, huh?

    [slamming his hand on the table]

    George: We have we done? We have 20 leadership names, we've only eliminated four of them!