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alex gibney
Jessica Chastain plays CIA
operative Maya in Kathryn
Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.

©2012 ZERO DARK THIRTY, LLC.

zero dark thirty’s wrong
and dangerous conclusion
T’S DIFFICULT FOR one filmmaker to criticize another.
That’s a job best left to critics.
However, in the case of Zero
Dark Thirty, an issue that is central to the
film — torture — is so important that I
feel I must say something. Mark Boal and

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Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible
and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film. I am not alone
in that view. The film conveys the unmistakable conclusion that torture led to the
death of Osama bin Laden. That’s wrong
and dangerously so, precisely because the