Zero Dark Thirty

I can't fathom how the critics could fall over themselves with love for Zero Dark Thirty. Besides being cowardly is a really banal cia military police procedural film, the directing is dull as dish water.

The script feels constrained and restrained of dramatic juice, interest, detail, character, insight, and isn't abetted one bit by the the cold mausoleum compositions that she feels the need to parade on screen incessantly one after the other, like the outtakes of a much more interesting film. AS IF the paucity of dramatic material substance juice  conflict, LIFE at the films core could sustain such hollow cinematic treatment. Hollow hollow film I tell you -- which is  a real shame because Bigelow used to have a great eye and direct her films with vigour and passion.

But at the end of the day, wihtout having something interesting inciteful important INFORMATIVE to say about the war on terror ZD30 ain't nothing more than a warmed over rerun of Homeland.

And lest that sound like an overly unreasonable or exigent request, just depict the events how they fucking happened, allow the transparency to be your aesthetic, allow translucency to be your statement or condemnation of events.

I mean you preach respect, you preach realism, you happily mawkishly to accept awards form making something other than an base action film (ooooh shudder the thought)  fine, stick to the fucking facts. Why in the name of fairness and accuracy in reporting, would diverge from the facts at such a critical moment in the narrative, in such a conspicuous manner within the narrative structure, with something as provocative and as weighty in your narrative as torture.

That tells you all you need to know about her as a propagan...*cough*  i mean filmmaker.

And why are we harbouring her drippy lies when we know that boat don't float, and that she's just trying to market her leaky vessel as qualified conveyor of cogent facts.?

And why is she given a pass for flip-flopping on her priorities in making the film. One moment she's justifying the existence of her film by cowering behind the shield of realism, then when it suits  her she advocates for artistic license, cowering from the controversy that her artistic license provoked.


So blantantly,disingenuous...Fascinating that we just sop it up.