You're kind of like my father. You'll find something to be angry about'. This place actually exists. It is part of the vast test and training range in the south Nevada desert. Without giving too much away, it is the place in the film where Maya tells some rather sceptical special force troops that Bin Laden has been found.
She hopes. The helicopters they are to use on the mission are based at Area They ain't just any old helicopters either. Though it remains one of the most secret military installations in America, the CIA has acknowledged operating there, and it is thought to have been a test site for military aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, and the stealth fighter.
This means operations security, and it is something the military is obsessed by, understandably. Piecemeal identification of a target, or a plan, is often a concern.
Journalists who go on visits to Afghanistan embedded with the military have to agree to have their stories cleared by op-sec before they are published. The MoD won't ask you to remove criticisms of the campaign, but it will demand the removal of any material that might be handy to the Taliban. That could be something as basic as saying when a flight leaves.
Zero Dark Thirty: a beginner's guide. Got it? Wait … isn't this a black op? Zero Dark Thirty. Zero Dark Thirty The title is a good place to start. The Saudi group The film starts with a reference to the Saudi group, and immediately focuses on the tribulations of a prisoner, Ammar.
Black sites These were secret locations where bad things tended to happen — places that US government agencies used to transport, detain, and interrogate detainees. KSM The initials do not stand for a Dutch airline. ISI This is another of the acronyms used repeatedly during the film. Abu Faraj al-Libi He is another senior member of al-Qaida who features in the film, albeit briefly a character played, incidentally, by an Israeli actor, Yoav Levi.
It depicts the overwhelming force of the Abbottabad raid—but it opens with violence of another sort, torture. The first dramatic scenes show a secret interrogation room in which a captive is subjected to torture by American agents.
In fact, the movie presents torture as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the attacks. Even the hostage-takers have their reasons. What we are shown is the apparent sheer will to destroy the United States and its allies, as suggested only by implication by the depictions of attacks in London, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and the failed attack in Times Square in Rather, those whose reasons are established at the outset are American torturers and civilians who accept or justify torture.
The movie suggests that those whose response to the attacks remains at the level of horror and anger are likely to accept extreme and morally repellent measures taken against anyone who seems connected with the perpetrators—and that these people hold a fanatical commitment to the death of bin Laden, a form of vengeance as justice.
Did Maya not have sex for ten years? Did she have no family with whom she communicates, no friends with whom she discusses her work, her obsession with catching bin Laden, her ideas about life in general?
What did she put on hold in her pursuit for bin Laden? Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What does "Zero Dark Thirty" mean? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 10 months ago. Active 6 years, 4 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Simon Whitaker.
Simon Whitaker Simon Whitaker 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. And this review reveals Improve this answer. Great link, and a more specific answer than the one on IMDb. I was in the military, and I never heard "zero dark thirty" used to refer specifically to It's slang for any obscenely early time in the morning. Just to clarify: I do think that this is the correct answer, in the sense that it directly relays what Bigelow meant with the title.
However, I still believe that she herself got mixed up about the meaning of the term "zero dark thirty. He even indicates in a note that the term was used with the meaning that I'm familiar with as early as the s, when he served.
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