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Buzz (and controversy) over Zero Dark Thirty Movie heats up – status watch – latest news

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Zero Dark Thirty movie

Zero Dark Thirty (military speak for half past midnight and a reference to the time that the team of Navy Seals had successfully terminated Bin Laden’s life on May 2, 2011) has not even been released to theaters yet and it’s already racking up awards right and left.  Amidst controversy over its portrayal of U.S. torture techniques utilized during the “war against terror”, the Sony/Columbia Pictures movie is a chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.  It is scheduled for limited release December 19, 2012 and general release on January 11, 2013.  The movie was shot on location in India and Jordan and stars Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke.

Buzz surrounding the upcoming flick centers on its explicit portrayal of torture techniques.  In a Time Magazine review, they noted:

“In a “black site” at an undisclosed location, a CIA officer is interrogating a man suspected of having information on the courier of Osama bin Laden. The suspect, Ammar (Reda Kateb), believes he can withstand the waterboarding, the dog collar, the sleep and food deprivation, the heavy metal music  that hammers his warehouse cell 24 hours a day; he boldly asserts that “jihad will go on for a hundred years.” But as his captor, Dan (Jason Clarke), patiently explains, “In the end, bro, everybody breaks. It’s biology.” Ammar turns to Dan’s silent partner, Maya (Jessica Chastain), and cries, “Your friend is an animal. Please help me.” The ordeal continues. That’s diplomacy, by any means necessary.”

Check out the photo montage below and a few of the movie trailers released by Sony Pictures.

 

 

Zero Dark Thirty Official US Trailer

 

Zero Dark Thirty–This is how it happened

 

Zero Dark Thirty–Official Trailer

 

Sources: IMDB, Columbia Pictures
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