“The Report” tries to set the record straight on CIA’s torture program (and “Zero Dark Thirty”)

[lollapoe]

Why we need more movies like The Report and less like Zero Dark Thirty https://t.co/gl4AN3rmDk
- Little White Lies (@LWLies) November 12, 2019

Five years after “Zero Dark Thirty” confused the connection between the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program and the capture of Osama bin Laden, the political thriller “The Report” aims to serve as a

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[aprilonestt]

I’m watching this tomorrow. Has anyone seem it already? Is it good?

[lollapoe]

I really liked it, and thought they did a great job telling a story that was pretty much a team of people going through millions of pages in a way that was still very engaging.

[uncledeshawnali]

[zoaster_toaster]

That was an A++++ line

[analievelyn]

really? It screams very white feminist to me.

[foxtree]

MTE. It’s very on brand for both of them. But white feminism never really goes out of vogue.

[lawofcosines]

i don't trust Boal at this point. also funny how Argo and ZDT, both films heavy with CIA in its storyline, were done with so nuch involvement and clearance from the agency to film

[safdies]

yaaaas i'm going to a free screening of this next friday

[kjendis5]

I saw Official secrets yesterday, which I thought was really great movie!

I loved the ending of zero dark thirty, I think it implies that they didn't kill Bin laden 🙂🙃

Also, what was the controversy surrounding Zero Dark Thirty, was it because they used torture(which they didn't?) or that they used torture and shows that torture works? Or was it something else?

[lollapoe]

The link between torture and the gathering of crucial information that helped find Bin Laden was portrayed in a very sus way in ZDT - the film shows a man being brutally tortured, and then later, while being treated a bit nicer, giving up important information, leaving the audience to decide whether or not the earlier torture helped get him into that stage of compliance. Some people thought the movie was straight up defending torture, while others had the more generous reading that it was taking a more nuanced approach of “showing but not condoning

[kjendis5]

ah, i understand! Thank you for the reply!