![]() We’re spared the images of September 11th - audio recordings of 911 calls, played over a black screen, set the stage instead - and indeed of just about anything that might artificially manipulate our emotions. This is a procedural, free of extraneous emotion and almost clinical in its recitation of the series of events that led to bin Laden’s demise. You would never know that the project began life with a totally different third act. It culminates in a startlingly matter-of-fact depiction of the SEALs’ daring midnight raid on bin Laden’s compound, which feels like a natural extension of the story rather than a tacked-on conclusion. “Zero Dark Thirty” remains largely about the manhunt: the CIA’s methodical, day-to-day, year-to-year sifting of intelligence, tips, and hunches. The terrorist leader’s death didn’t necessitate a total rewrite, though. ![]() ![]() Kathryn Bigelow, who’d won an Oscar for directing the soldier drama “The Hurt Locker,” and Mark Boal, who’d won an Oscar for writing it, were already collaborating on a film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden when history provided them with a more satisfying ending than the one they had. ![]()
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