30' sau nửa đêm (tựa gốc: Zero Dark Thirty) là một phim điện ảnh chính trị giật gân của Mỹ năm 2012 do Kathryn Bigelow đạo diễn và Mark Boal viết kịch bản. These were secret locations where bad things tended to happen – places that US government agencies used to transport, detain, and interrogate detainees. Zero Dark Thirty sticks solemnly and submissively to the CIA's official version of events, as received by screenwriter Mark Boal from his anonymous sources. In the Guardian, Naomi Wolf called Ms. Bigelow "an apologist for evil" and compared her to Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite documentarian. The phrase, it seems, doesn't refer to any single point, just night-time. Zero Dark Thirty team plan film about freed prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl, James Gandolfini: a life in clips as Tony Soprano - video, CIA requested Zero Dark Thirty rewrites, memo reveals. Using IR approaches together with insights from cultural studies, this book develops a dynamic model of crisis which seeks to understand the war on terror as a cultural phenomenon. Without giving too much away, it is the place in the film where Maya tells some rather sceptical special force troops that Bin Laden has been found. This movie, along with the TV series Homeland, makes me think we have a new American genre – war on terror procedurals. It is part of the vast test and training range in the south Nevada desert. © 2021 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Found inside – Page 178Director Kathryn Bigalow would wade into this debate over controversy surrounding the depiction of torture in her film Zero Dark Thirty. (Ben Child, “Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal respond to Zero Dark Thirty torture row,” The Guardian, ... Bigelow and Boal's second collaboration, Zero Dark Thirty, spans a whole decade, from 9/11 to the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011, and it centres on a CIA operative called Maya (Jessica Chastain). The first film was inspired by Boal's experiences while embedded with the US army in Iraq. Zero Dark Thirty, which has been igniting feverish reactions since before its first screening, is an account of the 10-year CIA search for Bin Laden and … With Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler. The waterboarding scenes are unwatchably horrible. Carving out a Golden Globe-winning role as a CIA agent on the hunt for Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty was a harrowing experience, the actress tells Gill Pringle Friday 18 January 2013 18:00 comments The ISI is Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, a powerful part of the country's military machine. Why is Hollywood’s take on the Afghan conflict so different from the UK’s? Mark Boal (born January 23, 1973) is an American journalist, screenwriter, and film producer.Before he became a prominent figure of cinema, Boal worked as a journalist for such publications as Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Salon, and Playboy.Boal's 2004 article "Death and Dishonor" was adapted for the film In the Valley of Elah, which Boal also co-wrote. Gandolfini was slightly abashed by his performance, and admitted writing to Panetta to apologise. They were also handy stopover sites for suspects who were being transported, kidnapped really, under the extraordinary rendition programme coordinated by the CIA. ↩; The Nation (18 February 2013): 7 ↩; Emphasis mine; Slavoj Zizek, “Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood’s Gift to American Power,” The Guardian (25 January 2013). Zero Dark Thirty is rated R by the MPAA for strong violence including brutal disturbing images, and for language. Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray + UV Copy) [2012] [Region Free] You would have to be very naive to believe all the information coming from the capture of people associated with Osama Bin Laden was obtained in the manner of ---tell us all you know and thank you for the information. Though "Zero Dark Thirty" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, Bigelow is not nominated for Best Director (she previously won that category for "The Hurt Locker"). But which stars made the most impact with the least effort? Kathryn Bigelow's film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden is only ever on the side of the home team, Peter Bradshaw, Xan Brooks and Catherine Shoard review Zero Dark Thirty, Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still. A masterwork from a master filmmaker. A novel by Mickey Martin. Book two in The Given series. Told with narrative brio, deep research, and a skeptical eye, The Quiet Americans is the gripping story of how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world. But unless I missed something, he doesn't tell the CIA anything. All other material is copyright 2021 Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson. He is regarded as the mastermind of the 9/11 plot, and one of Bin Laden's most trusted and senior lieutenants. In the meantime, he was waterboarded 183 times as the CIA pressed him for information about the al-Qaida network. It may be one of the best films of the year; it's certainly turning into one of the most controversial. Black sites, Washington corridors, tense SUV rides through dangerous city streets in Pakistan, operation rooms containing corkboards packed with names and faces … this could be a regular new milieu for flawed, maverick, attractive young investigators. Found insideJane Mayer, "Zero Conscience in "Zero Dark Thirty,'” New Yorker Blog, December 14, 2012, ... "Torture and Zero Dark Thirty.” 30. Glenn Greenwald, “Zero Dark Thirty: CIA Hagiography, Pernicious Propaganda,” Guardian, December 14, 2012, ... The film starts with a reference to the Saudi group, and immediately focuses on the tribulations of a prisoner, Ammar. And would he have felt safer or more vulnerable if the ISI had known his whereabouts? Photograph: Jonathan Olley/AP, Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still, secret locations where bad things tended to happen, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, powerful part of the country's military machine. Continue reading the main story. Some soldiers say it refers to 12.30am, but others insist this is not true. Web. Zero Dark Thirty is military slang, used across the services, by British and American soldiers, to describe a time after darkness has fallen. "Zero Dark Thirty" uses drama to tell the story of the terrorism that has been happening to "Americans" for the last 10 years. In this story, as the guardian, have a second chance to prove himself that he can do what is needed, as he have the help of others, his team, and as he the villains want to shut down, whatever it is, and make sure that they win this battle, ... Found inside – Page 280Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty,34 Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen35 and, as we saw in an earlier chapter, ... (1 December 2013); Ben Child, 'CIA Requested Zero Dark Thirty Rewrites, Memo Reveals', Guardian, 7 May 2013, ... Examines the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden and describes previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11. Zero Dark Thirty is military slang, used across the services, by British and American soldiers, to describe a time after darkness has fallen. The range was a fortress, apparently. I can well believe that, but for me the most sinister depiction of torture is non-depiction. The worldwide manhunt for the terrorist leader occupies the resources and attention of two U.S. presidential administrations. Ultimately, it is the work of a dedicated female operative (Jessica Chastain) that proves instrumental in finally locating bin Laden. As a piece of cinema, it's phenomenally gripping - an unholy masterwork. Found insideThe news did much to boost President Obama’s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was incomplete, or a lie. A passing interest in the CIA and the hunt for Osama bin Laden will not make it easy on the eye, or the ear. Found inside – Page 116Zero Dark Thirty is, in that sense, utterly compromised, its narrative neatness eliding the messy and incomplete nature of the post-9/11 world, its misleading revisionism putting too fine a point on the torture debate, and its sense of ... Found inside17 Bronwen Maddox, 'For lovers of truth, Zero Dark Thirty is sheer torture', The Times, 2 February 2013, 22. 18 Slavoj Zizek, 'Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood's Gift to American Power', The Guardian, 26 January 2013; Glenn Greenwald, ... Earlier this year, the film "Zero Dark Thirty", which purports to dramatize the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, generated substantial political controversy. The screenplay of Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-nominated film assumes people know about counter-terrorism. Im so happy that hes getting a lead role, in the Guardians Of The Galaxy. Before watching Zero Dark Thirty, it is important to understand the context through which people watched the film when it was released in 2012. For those of us with poor memories and worse geography, Tora Bora is the complex of caves in eastern Afghanistan where it was thought Bin Laden was hiding. The movie is like a police procedural as Maya meticulously goes through interviews, wire taps, and other sources of intelligence to try to find where bin Laden was hiding. Investigation into whether Zero Dark Thirty film-makers were granted access to classified CIA material is closed, Available for everyone, funded by readers. They just change their tactics and the movie stays toughly, undemonstratively onside with the CIA good guys. The group here is probably the number of detainees in CIA custody, such as Ammar, who are being interrogated, and tortured, for information leading to the whereabouts of the man who is known to them as the "emir". Found inside – Page 155Wolf, N. (2013) A Letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's Apology for Torture. Guardian [online]. Available at: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/04/ letter-kathryn-bigelow-zero-dark-thirty [accessed 23/6/2014]. A fictionalized account of al-Baluchi's interrogation at black sites is depicted in the 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty. Zero Dark Thirty is like a gorgeously-rendered monument to the fatal political miscalculation we made during the Bush years. Part of the Jewish Encounters series The first comprehensive biography of one of the most beloved authors of all time: the creator of Tevye the Dairyman, the collection of stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof. Found insideIf our artists don't confront [the question] more directly, and soon, the Agency will only continue to infiltrate our vulnerable film and television screens—and our minds." —Tom Hayden, Los Angeles Review of Books "The book makes a ... The final scene is edge-of-the-seat stuff, shot with masterly coolness. Found inside“A Letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's Apology for Torture.” The Guardian, January 4, 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/04/letter-kathryn-bigelow-zero-dark-thirty. Woodhead, Leslie. Found inside – Page 75We would not be wrong in reading Zero Dark Thirty as a film presenting September 11 and its aftermath as nothing more than an ... Slavoj Žižek, “Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood's Gift to American Power,” The Guardian, January 25, 2013, ... Found inside – Page 55... but a less-than-average C for “History” (Alex Von Tunzelmann, “Zero Dark Thirty's Torture Scenes Are Controversial and Historically Dubious,” Guardian, January 25, 2013, accessed November 20, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com). 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Many Hollywood movies about the war on terror have managed to ignore the subject, implying non-existence. Zero Dark Thirty stars Jessica Chastain as Maya, the female CIA operative who tracked the location of Osama Bin Laden. Though it remains one of the most secret military installations in America, the CIA has acknowledged operating there, and it is thought to have been a test site for military aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, and the stealth fighter. Check it … World leaders, including David Cameron, have questioned the loyalties of the ISI, and claimed that it appears to be both a supporter of terrorist groups, as well as the agency responsible for keeping them in check. The CIA officers in Zero Dark Thirty keep referring to KSM – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Found inside – Page 292“A Letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's Apology for Torture.” The Guardian, January 4, 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/ commentisfree/2013/jan/04/letter-kathryn-bigelow-zero-dark-thirty. Mitchell, W.J.T. “Obama as Icon. Then Barack Obama comes in, clamps down on torture, and the agency resorts to conventional analysis and clerical spadework, turning up a crucial long-overlooked lead, relating to "Abu Ahmed", Bin Laden's courier. Extreme violence. Zero Dark Thirty is a fictionalized account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The ISI has been accused of funding and training the Taliban in Afghanistan. KSM was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and taken to the Guantánamo Bay detention centre three years later. So why he is in the film at all is a bit of a mystery. For years their existence was rumoured, but denied. We’d love it if you subscribed! It is MI5 with hobnailed boots on, and has the word "shadowy" as an almost permanent prefix. 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 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is. Zero Dark Thirty is writing our collective history for us — engraving it on the American psyche. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's meticulous and electrifying re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is that kind of movie. Then i saw him in Zero Dark Thirty and thought he did an amazing job for such a little part. Oscar winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal are among the film-makers lining up to tell his story of disillusioned US soldier Bowe Bergdahl and his captivity by the Taliban, Following the death of American actor James Gandolfini, we take a look back at his career defining role as Tony Soprano in HBO's the Sopranos, Document shows agency requested removal of interrogation scene with dog, and shots of operatives partying with AK47, Glenn Greenwald: The stigma attached to the pro-torture CIA propaganda vehicle, beloved by film critics, results in Oscar humiliation. This is a free episode! Found insideWolf, N. (2013) 'A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture', The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/04/letterkathryn-bigelow-zero-dark-thirty (accessed 4 June 2018). Found inside – Page 272Guardian, November 26. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis free/2012/nov/26/obama-drones-kill-list-framework. –. 2012b. “Zero Dark Thirty: CIA Hagiography, Pernicious Propaganda.” Guardian, December 14. Found inside – Page 373Ben Child, “Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal Respond to Zero Dark Thirty Torture Row," Guardian, January 8, 2013, https:/theguardian.com/film/2013 /jan/08/bigelow-zero-dark-thirty-torture. 288 historic Fort Sam Houstom:502nd Air Base Wing ... August 9, 2020. Found insideDrawing on previously unseen official documents and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize–winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks beyond the cover–ups, the equivocations, and the attempts to dismiss brutality ... Found inside4 5 a 6 7 9 11 www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/disturbing-misleading-zero-dark-thirty/ Karen Greenberg quoted ... See Slavoj Žižek, “Zero Dark Thirty – Hollywood's gift to American power,” The Guardian, January 25, 2013. Violence: We see a man being tortured by CIA agents who use water-boarding techniques (while he is held down a cloth is placed over his face and water is … Then I discovered someone had actually written a piece called "Zero Dark Thirty 'A Beginners Guide'" on The Guardian website. Site Index. When it is pitch black, dark. Alex Gibney, “Zero Dark Thirty‘s Wrong and Dangerous Conclusion,” Huffington Post (21 December 2012). You're kind of like my father. "The wig, everything. Found inside – Page 305“A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture.” The Guardian (4 January). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/04/ letter‐kathryn‐bigelow‐zero‐dark‐thirty. Zero Dark Thirty. Poland and Romania are known to have hosted black sites, and some campaigners say 17 ships were also used for the same purposes. From the author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968, this is a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The movie is like a police procedural as Maya meticulously goes through interviews, wire taps, and other sources of intelligence to try to find where bin Laden was hiding. Many commentators said have said it is inconceivable that the ISI didn't know Bin Laden was living in Pakistan. They are not mentioned in Zero Dark Thirty. Found inside – Page 232Wolf, Naomi (2013), 'A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture', The Guardian, 4 January, ( accessed 8 July ... There is no tonal shift, and no disavowal, moral or strategic. Despite its fence-sitting, I prefer Bigelow's account. Wait … isn't this a black op? It’s a cliché but … Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray + UV Copy) [2012] [Region Free] You would have to be very naive to believe all the information coming from the capture of people associated with Osama Bin Laden was obtained in the manner of ---tell us all you know and thank you for the information. Found inside – Page 40The real problem with Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, we might say, is not that these films affirm US state power; ... Guardian. Guardian, 14 Dec. 2012. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. ---. “Zero Dark Thirty: New Torture-Glorifying Film Wins Raves. May 07, 2016. It isn't a term that is unique to the special forces units that found the al-Qaida leader hiding in Pakistan. Advertisement. "I sent a note to Leon saying, 'I'm very sorry about everything," he told reporters. There is nothing in Zero Dark Thirty comparable to Gavin Hood's soul-searching 2007 movie, Rendition, in which Jake Gyllenhaal's CIA agent denounces waterboarding information as valueless; he quotes Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and says torture victims "speak upon the rack,/ Where men enforced do speak anything". Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty is a key text: a spy drama about the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden, starring Jessica Chastain as the CIA agent Maya on a personal mission to nail America's Public Enemy No 1. But Zero Dark Thirty has bigger name actors and was screened on the big screen. He is alleged to be Bin Laden's number three, who knows the identity of Abu Ahmed, the courier who has become the focus of Maya's obsessional search for OBL. Zero Dark Thirty … But it's been a long time since the invasion of Afghanistan. But for all that the recent pulpy version of the same story by John Stockwell is inferior to Bigelow's, Stockwell did acknowledge the existence of those Pakistani nationals who helped the Americans get into the country, and are now locked up for it. However, the film is confusing to follow. You'll find something to be angry about'.". He is another senior member of al-Qaida who features in the film, albeit briefly (a character played, incidentally, by an Israeli actor, Yoav Levi). Found insideMcGuire, The Algiers Motel Incident is a powerful indictment of racism and the US justice system. Found inside – Page 234Matt Taibbi, '“Zero Dark Thirty” in Osama Bin Laden's Last Victory Over America', Rolling Stone, January 16, 2013. Glen Greenwald, 'Zero Dark Thirty: CIA, Hagiography, Pernicious Propaganda,' The Guardian, December 15, 2012. Brief audio excerpts are used herein for purposes of review. It was a snub heard around the film world, and many point to the controversy surrounding the movie as the reason the Academy's voters shied away from Bigelow's name. ↩ Yes, that really is him. Their use was authorised in the days after the 9/11 attacks as hubs for prisoners accused of terrorist involvement. Found inside – Page 243Slavo Žižek, “Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood's Gift to American Power,” Guardian, January 25, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/25/zero-dark -thirty-normalises-torture-unjustifiable. 27. Kathryn Bigelow interview ... Piecemeal identification of a target, or a plan, is often a concern. It is well made, with a relentless, dour drumbeat of tension and a great final sequence, but nowhere near as good as the first season of Homeland, whose troubled heroine Carrie resembles Maya in key particulars. The movie doesn't have the TV show's subversive, satirical sass and fictional limberness. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, an associate of Bin Laden's, was given visas to enter the US on four occasions by the CIA. Names and acronyms fly at viewers faster than a Black Hawk helicopter, so stragglers could be easily left behind. Zero Dark Thirty (Blu-ray + UV Copy) [2012] [Region Free] You would have to be very naive to believe all the information coming from the capture of people associated with Osama Bin Laden was obtained in the manner of ---tell us all you know and thank you for the information. A man who graduated at an American university, he is currently facing charges relating to his involvement in 9/11 that are being heard by a military tribunal. August 10, 2020. When the movie first came out, everyone pointed out… The initials do not stand for a Dutch airline. Woe betide those who go to see Zero Dark Thirty without being properly briefed. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a comparative analysis of September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror with Pearl Harbor and World War II, addressing institutional failures of intelligence and imagination and the driving forces ... Faraj al-Libi was captured in 2005 and is still in US custody. The top and bottom of it is that because the movie allows for the possibility that heavy-handed CIA interrogation techniques might sometimes have yielded important information -- of the kind that led to the capture of Osama bin … Kathryn Bigelow 's Zero Dark Thirty is a key text: a spy drama about the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden, starring Jessica Chastain as the CIA agent Maya on a … Kajaki is a very British film about the Afghan war: tense without showing combat, it is the antithesis of Hollywood glory-gore. Zero Dark Thirty (2012) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Her information sent Seal Team 6 onto the historical mission. The character played by Soprano, AKA James Gandolfini, is a thinly disguised portrayal of Leon Panetta, who was director of the CIA at the time Bin Laden was found. Here's the briefing: op-sec is a priority when searching for OBL, since the ISI is unreliable. “Zero Dark Thirty is a gorgeously-shot, ... against Guantánamo prisoners out of jail,” wrote Naomi Wolf in a first-person letter to Bigelow published in The Guardian. Journalists who go on visits to Afghanistan embedded with the military have to agree to have their stories cleared by op-sec before they are published. The agency's torturer Dan (Jason Clarke) is apparently entirely callous, ostentatiously caring more for the soldiers' pet caged monkeys in Guantánamo Bay than the human inmates. Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.The film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of terrorist network Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks.This search leads to the discovery of his compound in Pakistan and the military raid where bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011. Not as a ruthless Italian mafioso from New Jersey, but as a ruthless CIA boss who is only referred to as "the director". Found inside – Page 179Steven Zeitchik, 'Senators say “Zero Dark Thirty” is “grossly inaccurate”', LA Times, 20 December 2012. Paul Harris, 'Valerie Plame Welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty', Guardian, 15 December 2012. Although some of the scenes are dramatized, the torture and interrogation in the movie depicts aspects of finding Bin Laden. It's ambiguous – and slippery.