In her previous film, Kathryn Bigelow captured modern warfare unlike
any other director. While others had made fast paced, action packed, gun
blazing films, Bigelow focused on the slow, tension building, patient
driven action that defines the state of modern war. She also was
rewarded for her efforts by dominating awards season and winning the
Best Director and Picture oscars over her ex-husband James Cameron.
Needless to say when the news was released that Bigelow and Mark Boal,
who also wrote
The Hurt Locker, were working together again I
was excited. Add to the mix that the film was about the hunt for Osama
Bin Laden and you have cinema gold in your hands. Featuring a stellar
cast including Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Chris Pratt, and Joel
Edgerton and it seems that it is almost impossible to fail. With the
potential through the roof, Bigelow has the potential to make an instant
classic and capture one of the most important manhunts in recent
history.
Zero Dark Thirty follows the driven Maya, a young recruit
into the CIA after September 11, 2001 who has been assigned to the case
of finding Osama Bin Laden. Starting at 9/11, the film follows the hunt
and the long road to capturing the mastermind behind the attacks.
Covering everything from detainee tortures to following bad leads, the
hunt pushes Maya to her limits as she has to fight back doubters and her
leaders working against her. After losing friends through the war and
almost losing hope, after almost a decade of looking, Maya believes she
has found the house holding Osama Bin Laden. Maya must now work fast to
get the facts to back up her beliefs and to convince the bureaucrats in
Washington that she is correct in hopes to capture Bin Laden before it
is all too late.
