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In reply to the discussion: Academy member calls for Oscars boycott of Zero Dark Thirty [View all]global1
(25,241 posts)20. Has Anyone Asked The Author(s) What Their Intention Was For Including Torture In This Movie?....nt
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Thanks for posting that..Amnesty International has released concerns about the film too. n/t
Jefferson23
Jan 2013
#2
Mark Boal also helped write In The Valley of Elah, a movie very critical of the Iraq War
ButterflyBlood
Jan 2013
#89
Torture was shown to not work. Real police detective work was shown to work.
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#82
Republicans have no limits on their outrageous behavior...haven't had any
Sekhmets Daughter
Jan 2013
#105
"Except that.. "that part of history" was depicted in an irresponsible and inaccurate way."
99Forever
Jan 2013
#14
Twice in this thread you dismissed people's take on the issue of the movie's portrayal of torture...
Bjorn Against
Jan 2013
#121
To depict torture without taking a stand at least artistically about it makes that depiction
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2013
#66
Illustrating a thing in fictional detail without taking a moral stance is then condoning a thing?
LanternWaste
Jan 2013
#99
This is not what I said. What I did say is that her contention that she made a neutral reporting
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2013
#129
Has Anyone Asked The Author(s) What Their Intention Was For Including Torture In This Movie?....nt
global1
Jan 2013
#20
I did not include those scenes because the movie did not portray that they worked.
Luminous Animal
Jan 2013
#104
Yes. Keep the torture in. Still either the CIA, the Senators, or the director is lying
think
Jan 2013
#137
The Oscars have always been political. Yet I understand the boycott and their concerns.
Jefferson23
Jan 2013
#92
I would recommend then you not watching homeland or in the past, 24. There was far more in those
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#88
I've seen the movie. "Torture works" is not a message I got from it at all.
ButterflyBlood
Jan 2013
#94
If Judgement at Nuremeberg can win an Oscar. Why can't the opposite? nt
raouldukelives
Jan 2013
#131
People tend to believe what they see projected 50 feet high on a screen
kenny blankenship
Jan 2013
#145