While a bit surface-level, it’s interesting to see the rigorous training that Bigelow put her actors through in order to do justice to SEAL Team Six’s accomplishment.
We also get a neat look at the construction of the stealth helicopters as well as some insight from the actors portraying SEAL Team Six, most amusingly Chris Pratt. Bigelow didn’t want any breakaway walls in the structure so she could shoot 360 degrees handheld, so it’s more than a little eerie to see screenwriter/producer Mark Boal give a blow-by-blow tour of the compound that runs down the events of that fateful night as they happened. It’s a fascinating look into how the raid was put together, as we get to see the crew literally build an exact replica of the compound to scale. The Compound – The best extra on the disc is this 9-minute featurette that focuses on the Abbottabad sequence. Nevertheless, it’s nice to get a look behind-the-scenes of such a secretive production, and this featurette serves as the very definition of “better than nothing.” The audio clips from the cast and crew is spliced together in a Frankenstein fashion so as to get everything down to a short length, which is a tad distracting. The focus is mainly on what Bigelow brought to the picture as a filmmaker, but everything moves so quickly that it’s tough to gather much insight. No Small Feat – This featurette is a general “making of” for the film, but at just under 4 minutes in length it doesn’t go into near as much detail as a film of this stature warrants.The featurettes are still worth a watch, but I hope a more extensive home video release is in the cards down the road. I would have preferred a more extensive look into the making of the film or even a roundtable discussion about the themes and issues brought up in the pic, but we're only left with a collection of featurettes and no audio commentary. Unfortunately, the extras on this disc on decidedly light. Screenwriter Mark Boal takes an objective, journalistic viewpoint in portraying the events onscreen, as audiences are asked to draw their own conclusions as to whether the means justify an end. Yes, the torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty are disturbing and hard to watch: that’s the point. forces went in their hunt for information.
#BREAKAWAY WALLS DEFINITION FILM MOVIE#
This is not a “ruh-rah!” action movie about a group of Navy SEALs taking down Bin Laden it’s a thoughtful, slow-burn drama that tells audiences exactly what happened in the years following the 9/11 terror attacks, and asks tough questions without offering any easy answers.Īs we follow CIA officer Maya ( Jessica Chastain) through her obsessive search for Bin Laden, Bigelow refuses to shy away from showing the lengths to which U.S. It’s a harrowing experience, and these opening seconds tell audiences exactly what kind of film they can expect going forward. Zero Dark Thirty opens with a black screen, as audio starts to play from real-life phone calls made from people in the World Trade Center towers minutes before they fell.
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