SSC Film Studies

 

Zero Dark Thirty

 

Maya is a CIA officer whose first experience with terrorism is the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on 9/11. She is assigned to Pakistan to learn how to torture and seek out Osama Bin Laden. For many years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of  Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, the team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she thinks he is.

Post 9/11

• "Zero Dark Thirty" fills its first minute with a harrowing black screen set to the screams of panic from distress calls during 9/11.
• Maya is trying to find Bin Laden, making this whole films post-9/11 because if it wasn't for the attacks on the World Trade Centre then the purpose of this film would be pointless, the film starts with screaming from the 9/11 disaster making people relive the moment.
• the fact that they're going to war and becoming more aggressive shows this film is post-9/11 because they still want justice for what happened even after all this time.



• 'approached the "war on terror"'- this quote shows that she tried to make this film about terrorism and how the US are trying to fight terrorism, this all stemmed from the 9/11 attacks from Bin Laden.
•  'spans a whole decade, from 9/11 to the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011'- this quote again shows that the point in her film was to get6 across a post-9/11 and that people still think about it, even ten years after the disaster.
• 'sense of life'- I like this quote because I feel like it shows how we have became immune to terrorism and how it has become a part of our lives after the 9/11 attacks.