Zero Dark Thirty - 6/10
This film was very interesting to watch. It was graded very high by critics on RottenTomatoes. But what strikes about this movie is how differently it is perceived by American and international public.
If you check
the reviews on IMDB you'll see that the majority of international viewers doesn't like the movie. I also checked Russian movie sites and from there you can feel the anger towards the movie. There are two types of rants:
1. The movie is boring, characters are flat etc. How come it was nominated for Oscars?
2. The movie is obvious propaganda.
Oscar favourite Zero Dark Thirty is torture to watch - and about as subtle as Die Hard ( Dailymail UK)
"Frankly, that’s a superficial, foolish and parochial way to approach the war on terror, and this is a silly, at times despicable film that never remotely deserved an Oscar nomination. Compared with this, Team America: World Police was a think piece."
Zero Dark Thirty: CIA Hagiography, Pernicious Propaganda ( Gardian UK)
My personal rant:
The movie is nothing more than a blatant feminist message.
Kathryn Bigelow is a famous feminist. According to one of the most influential feminist theorist Judith Butler: "[size=small]
Butler's central thesis - "that, in a way we are all transvestites" - challenges popularly held views of tranvestite-ism, and destabilizes traditional modes of constructing gender identity. Most people think that they're not transvestites because they do not go out wearing the clothing of the opposite sex."[/size]
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Th main hero of ZDT Maya kicks men asses during the whole movie. She is smarter, more patriotic and more persevering than men who look like caricatures.[/size]