Michael Moore: In Defense of Zero Dark Thirty
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After I saw ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ a friend asked me, “During the torture scenes, who did you feel empathy for the most – the American torturer or the Arab suspect?” That was easy to answer. “Oh, God, the poor guy being waterboarded. The torturer was a sadist.” “Yes, that’s the answer everyone gives me afterward. The movie actually makes you care for the tortured guys who may have, in fact, been part of 9/11. Like rooting for the Germans on the submarine to make it back to port in ‘Das Boot,’ that’s the sign of some great filmmaking when the writer and director are able to get you to empathize with the person you’ve been told everywhere else to hate.” ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture
anyone who’s seen this wanna weigh in? not sure Joe and Jane America will take away the same things MMFlint did – i haven’t seen the film and probably won’t – mab .. read more
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What saddens me most about MM’s piece is that this is the same guy who brought us Fahrenheit 9/11, one of the first “Truth Movement” documents about the phoniness of the “official story” of 9/11. Yet he has apparently bought the “official story” of OBL’s death at Abbottabad hook, line and sinker, despite plenty of evidence, both direct and circumstantial, that bin Laden was dead years before the “raid.”
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