Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Initial impression of Zero Dark Thirty


Got a chance to see Zero Dark Thirty this morning.

All I can say is "The New Iliad". Seriously. It's storytelling straight from The Iliad's days.

Anyone who says it is judgmental, for or against, torture either didn't see it, or watched it through an ideological lens - it tells a story. "This is *basically* what happened". It's going to be as transformative as Private Ryan and is one of those movies that examines the soul. But makes no judgment on what it finds there.

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2 comments:

  1. "See this box? This box really sucks."

    Actually, I thought the film was rather boring... except for the final 20 minutes, which were spectacular.

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    1. Diff'r'nt strokes, diff'rn't folks.

      I walked out of the theater muttering "the new Iliad". It was straightforward storytelling, of the likes Achilles and Agamemnon, Jason and Hercules might have told and heard.

      It was a Greek saga, supremely told. For sure it was updated, but it really did hew to Greek mythological storytelling - and it told us not of a war, but of a nation. Its understatement was its strength, its brutality was its strength.

      How could you find its brutality tedious?

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