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Q & A: How Willimon Runs Fincher's 'House ...Read: Kathryn Bigelow's Essay Addressing Depiction of Torture in 'Zero Dark Thirty'
The full essay can be read here.
On freedom of artistic expression, and her lifelong pacifism:
I support every American's 1st Amendment right to create works of art and speak their conscience without government interference or harassment. As a lifelong pacifist, I support all protests against the use of torture, and, quite simply, inhumane treatment of any kind.
On the confusion between depiction and endorsement:
For confusing depiction with endorsement is the first step toward chilling any American artist's ability and right to shine a light on dark deeds, especially when those deeds are cloaked in layers of secrecy and government obfuscation.
On the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden:
I think Osama bin Laden was found due to ingenious detective work. Torture was, however, as we all know, employed in the early years of the hunt. That doesn't mean it was the key to finding Bin Laden. It means it is a part of the story we couldn't ignore. War, obviously, isn't pretty, and we were not interested in portraying this military action as free of moral consequences.
4 Comments
tin2 | January 18, 2013 8:37 AM
Bigelow just depicted what really happened. So what do u want? A pretentious movie?!?
tin2 | January 18, 2013 8:36 AM
Bigelow just depicted what really happened. So what do u want? A pretentious movie?!?
pol | January 16, 2013 11:51 PM
Bigelow the Tool -- http://wp.me/pwAWe-ZG
Qwertz | January 16, 2013 7:44 PM
Honestly though, if she didnt want to link torture to the capture of bin laden she shouldn't have written the scene where they finally get information from amar or the scene where maya was able to extract an idea from countless torture tapes. At the end of the day, those two scenes are what led to the capture of zero dark thirty's bin laden more than anything else depicted in the film and nothing she says in this essay changes that.