Reblogged from Chicago Cinema Circuit:
“100%, he’s there” announces Maya (Jessica Chastain) as she counters reservations from CIA operatives around the table. The discussion outlined in this crucial scene summates much of Zero Dark Thirty’s thesis; probability and calculation are the motivating force behind deploying Navy SEALs into a compound believed to house Osama Bin Laden. Consciously stripped of discussions on morality, Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to The Hurt Locker is of grander scale, more exacting and theoretical in design while surprisingly uninterested with extraneous political subtext.
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