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INTERVIEW: Kathryn Bigelow & Mark Boal
'Sat at the head of a table, Bigelow and Boal give every
impression of having wandered into one of the minefields in their previous Oscar-winner,
The Hurt Locker. Their answers are curt, tight-lipped, as if
still in lock-down mode after hanging out with too many spooks. “People are going to bring
whatever politics they want to it,” says Boal, “but we try not to bring any
agenda to it and tell the story. Something that gets lost in the politicization
is the no single piece of information led to Bin Laden, and no single
technique. There were lots of tools in the toolbox, under two administrations
spanning ten years. In terms of the efficacy-of-torture debate, that’s a debate
that continues even among the people that did it. That debate will probably
continue for some time. I’m not trying to settle a score in that debate. So
much as: this stuff happened. We had to include it in the story.” This is disingenuous. Nobody
is disputing whether torture happened. What
has senators like John McCain up in arms are the scenes showing the film's main
suspect giving up Bin Laden’s courier only after
being extensively tortured (a second suspect does the same), when in reality, the Saudi
on whom he was based, Mohammed al-Qhatani, gave up all his useful intel before he saw any rough stuff. This is an important thing to get wrong. This is the freebie to Dick Cheney that so dismays the film's critics. Despite Bigelow and Boal's disavowals, their film expresses a definite opinion on torture. That opinion is that it works.' — from my Sunday Times article on Zero Dark Thirty
Jesus Fucking Christ! You put Zero Dark Thirty on your Best Films of 2012 list! And "disingenuous" is all you can think of to say about the goddamned WHORES Bigelow and Boal?
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