Zero Dark Thirty

CIA officer Maya has her first experience with terrorism when the Al Quaeda attcks are taking place against the USA on 9/11. Maya has been assigned to Pakistan in order to learn how to torture and to seek out Osama Bin Laden. For years of her investigations she is single minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the hide out of Osama Bin Laden however only Maya is confident that the Al Quaeda leader is where she says he is. The ending of the film is highly intense when the raid takes place in the household of where Bin Laden is said to be hiding, when the Helicopter crashes we as an audience cant hold in the desperation for the plan to hopefully turn around and come out positive. Post 9/11 The film Zero Dark Thirty is post 9/11 because at the very beginning of the film it starts with a blacked out screen with only the voices of the distressed making phone calls outwards from inside the World Trade Center buildings. Throught the film there are various events that followed on from 9/11 such as the London bombings. Maya's aim is to find and kill Bin Laden throughout the film, Bin Laden being the leader of this whole operation, her main motion being to stop any more bombs or deaths to the civilians of not only America but the UK after 9/11 where over 3000 Americans were killed during the traumatic 9/11. 'The way Bigelow shot that last sequence in Abbotabad, constantly declining to Michael-Bay-ize the action sequences with goofball explosions and kung-fu battles, and not glossing over the brutality or the mission's mistakes (God, what a screw-up to crash that helicopter!), it was ingenious' - Matt Taibbi 'Spans a whole decade, from 9/11 to the killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011' - The Guardian