Zero Dark Thirty: 'Kill him for me" Scene analysis

Zero Dark Thirty: ‘kill him for me’ scene In this scene we see a lot of beefed up American men, this portrays straight away the strong American people that the director wants to put across. One of the men asks how do they even know UBL (Bin Laden) is in the house; this reflects the paranoia and uncertainty around America as to what was really happening within the government and the whole UBL situation; as to whether there was a war about to break or if he was actually dead already. The scene tries to reinforce that the task of killing bin laden was really an uncertainty and there was no guarantees that all the training we see the men doing is gong to pay off. It also reinforces the secrecy of the assassination of UBL because even the men who had the task were unaware of whom they were killing until the final meeting. This therefore puts across to the American people that it was an operation to risky to expose. This scene almost tries to justify to the audience what really happened but mainly give us an idea of how the operation was carried out, in effect educating us on the killing of UBL.