5:48 pm - 01/17/2013
'Zero Dark Thirty makes me hate muslims'
The fil Zero Dark Thirty s now showing in theaters nationwide and reactions are starting to appear on social networks. Here are some collected on the tumblr site dapsandhugs:
While the film has obviously found its supporters, backlash against i continues to grow. Yesterday, director Kathryn Bigelow defended her film from charges it promotes torture in an Op-Ed for th Los Angeles Times Bigelow claimed artistic license writing, "those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement." While this is obviously true, the film goes further than depiction. As Deepa Kumar wrote he film promotes extra judicial killing and the drone warfare that has become the hallmark of the Obama administration's "war on terror."
More disgusting tweets at Source 1, I don't have anything else to say.
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While the film has obviously found its supporters, backlash against i continues to grow. Yesterday, director Kathryn Bigelow defended her film from charges it promotes torture in an Op-Ed for th Los Angeles Times Bigelow claimed artistic license writing, "those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement." While this is obviously true, the film goes further than depiction. As Deepa Kumar wrote he film promotes extra judicial killing and the drone warfare that has become the hallmark of the Obama administration's "war on terror."
More disgusting tweets at Source 1, I don't have anything else to say.
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i wish i could be surprised.
I think that's where the whole pro-torture angle comes from, I haven't seen the movie but from what I've heard I don't think it is meant to be pro-torture but I think they went further than people feel comfortable with, and those people feel concerned about how the scenes could be potentially perceived, just like if a movie show too much of a graphic rape it could be viewed as rape porn even if that was not the intention of the director.
By the credits I wasn't even sure who the real terrorists were. I thought it was a good portrayal.
And yet I'm sure if I watch it with my boyfriend, he'll walk out hating muslims too. It's all perspective.