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
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?
ARTICLE CONTINUED.......
http://tinyurl.com/besgdq7
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?
ARTICLE CONTINUED.......
http://tinyurl.com/besgdq7
Close Guantanamo!
Homepage:
http://witnesstorture.org
Comments
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Erm!
22.01.2013 00:24
Erm, this IS Amerikaan Hollywood we are talking about here. You write like you expect that Hollywood knows what morality is?
Hollywood is just there to glamorise whatever their government does. Obama could have gassed and incinerated every Muslim on the planet, and Hollywood would still spit out garbage made to look like it was a heroic thing to do.
Hollywood has no brain, it has never had a brain, it will never possess a brain. All it is capable of understanding, is how to make Amerikaa look righteous to the rest of the world.
That's it. Dare aint nuttin else.
anonymous
So do you want this film banned then?
22.01.2013 12:17
Dan Factor
Nahhhh
22.01.2013 13:05
Discussed, protested, tube bus shelter posters enhanced creatively, approached with a critical disposition rather than approached passively all would be nice
Here's a photo o an intervention in D.C.
Close Guantanamo!
real truth
22.01.2013 18:10
They found him through intelligence. And the intelligence was gained through people
neptune spear
Go figure?
22.01.2013 19:44
Go figure?
zero bark dirty.
22.01.2013 19:46
Its really sad that there are humans on this planet capable of that kind of stupidity.
Bin Laden died in 2005, you're government made a logical decision that it was safe to stage a stunt so they could take the credit for his death. Its what dumb as shit capitalist governments of the west do.
Its all they are capable of doing.
Its why almost the whole of your history is a lie.
What a sad sucker you are!
anointymous
Launch of "Dirty Wars" at Sundance Film Fesival
23.01.2013 11:03
Democracy Now (30 mins
Premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the new documentary "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield" follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan,...
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