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Zero Dark Thirty (an apology for torture) Opening in London, Protested in U.S.

Close Guantanamo! | 21.01.2013 20:25

VID (3 mins) Witness Against Torture head to D.C. Zero Dark Thirty Premiere
 http://vimeo.com/57056486

VID NBC (2 mins) At the cinema “Protesters Demonstrate About ‘Zero Dark Thirty’”
 http://tinyurl.com/b7yo2v7

A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture
by Naomi Wolf

By peddling the lie that CIA detentions led to Bin Laden's killing, you have become a Leni Riefenstahl-like propagandist of torture

Dear Kathryn Bigelow,

The Hurt Locker was a beautiful, brave film; many young women in film were inspired as they watched you become the first woman ever to win an Oscar for directing. But with Zero Dark Thirty, you have attained a different kind of distinction.

Your film Zero Dark Thirty is a huge hit here. But in falsely justifying, in scene after scene, the torture of detainees in "the global war on terror", Zero Dark Thirty is a gorgeously-shot, two-hour ad for keeping intelligence agents who committed crimes against Guantánamo prisoners out of jail. It makes heroes and heroines out of people who committed violent crimes against other people based on their race – something that has historical precedent.

Your film claims, in many scenes, that CIA torture was redeemed by the "information" it "secured", information that, according to your script, led to Bin Laden's capture. This narrative is a form of manufacture of innocence to mask a great crime: what your script blithely calls "the detainee program".

What led to this amoral compromising of your film-making?

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  1. Erm! — anonymous
  2. So do you want this film banned then? — Dan Factor
  3. Nahhhh — Close Guantanamo!
  4. real truth — neptune spear
  5. Go figure? — Go figure?
  6. zero bark dirty. — anointymous
  7. Launch of "Dirty Wars" at Sundance Film Fesival — DD