Tuesday, December 11, 2012

You expected this, didn't you? Zero Dark Thirty blasts torture by giving us plenty of it to watch

Danger Room  "One scene features a bloodied, disoriented and humiliated man strapped to a wall with his pants around his ankles. A second scene depicts the same man having liquid forcibly poured down his throat; later, he’s shoved into a box that could barely hold your stereo. And all of this takes place in the first 45 minutes or so of Zero Dark Thirty, the new movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. It’s enough to make you wretch. It’s arguably the best and most important part of the movie."
Typical of Hollywood, those being victims of actions it disapproves are pictured as sympathetic, pitiful people. The movie people's take on the subject:

"Kathryn Bigelow’s new film about the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden begins with an unsparing, nauseating and frighteningly realistic look at how the CIA tortured many people and reaped very little intelligence. "
...."At the same time, the film makes viewers come to grips with what Dick Cheney euphemistically called the “dark side” of post-9/11 counterterrorism. Meanwhile, former Bush administration aide Philip Zelikow, who termed the torture a “war crime” in a recent Danger Room interview, will probably find the movie more amenable than Cheney will. What endures on the screen are scenes that can make a viewer ashamed to be American, in the context of a movie whose ending scene makes viewers very, very proud to be American."
But Hollywood will do all it can to make sure you are not too proud.

Speaking of guys who advocate torture, this guy was a guest of honor at the Obama White House.
"The guy who made a poor quality video about Muhammad sits in jail.
"The guy who advocat[ed] the torture and painful, slow deaths of the U.S. military and their families…HE got to perform at the president’s Christmas party.
"It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD world."

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