ZERO TERRIFYING DARK THIRTY

The Auschwitz Oven assassinates the kettle black...... The overwhelming sensation on seeing this film was of fear, then outrage for the great Predator nation which goes anywhere, and does anything it wants, without regard for international law. In fact cloaking its crimes as 'justice'. Kathryn Bigelow won Oscars for her earlier effort 'The Hurt Locker', which seems pretentious and shallow in comparison to what she has accomplished here. The Hurt locker focused on the trials of US soldiers in Iraq, glossing over the Hurt of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (men women and children) who had been murdered by the US invasion and occupation, or that of the 5-6 million who had become refugees fleeing from the catastrophic devastation wreaked on their nation on fabricated pretences of WMD by the Predator Nation - itself the greatest producer, user and merchandiser of WMD on this planet. Last week a Toronto Sun article said the reason Bigelow was snubbed by the Academy this time was that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats liked this picture. The article theorized this was because the picture appears to glorify torture, which eventually resulted in the assassination of "UBL'. But that is not the reason - other films including 'Rendition' exposed the lie that 'the United States does not torture'. The reason this movie is disliked by the American powers-that-be is that it provides probably the most honest, cold, brutal portrayal of America is it really is, and as it is seen in the real world, as opposed to the world of propaganda that is North American society. It shows why 'they' hate the 'US', the Great Pretender which in dozens of countries has destroyed democracy and installed or supported friendly and obedient dictators. Even Coppola's famed 'Apocalypse Now' did not dare indict the US as openly, nakedly as this 'movie' does. In response to criticisms about inaccuracies, Ms. Bigelow recently said this was only a 'movie'. But this is really an 'unmovie'. It is scarier, more dark, more honest, than any documentary. The music for instance, is sombre, chilling, and completely devoid of jingoism or machismo, as it accompanies the stealth penetration of Pakistani territory by Navy Seals as they coldly, cunningly, professionally, ruthlessly carry out their dirty task, described by an Arab newspaper at the time as a 'settlement of accounts between killers'. The movie does not show the dumping of UBL's body into the ocean, designed to frustrate any investigation into the matter. If the Mafia could operate as efficiently to dispose of inconvenient evidence......... None of the CIA characters who drone on about the 'slaughter' of '3000 innocent Americans' says a word about the 'slaughter' of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans. But this only emphasizes their insignificance to the Auschwitz Oven. One contrast to this unmovie is the movie 'Skyfall', whose highlights include a disgruntled MI-6 operative blowing up MI-6 headquarters and killing off the Queen of Pomposity Judi Dench as 'M'. Could something like that happen in the CIA?