She may be seen as an avatar for the CIA in general. The film essentially becomes - broadly speaking - a race for Maya to find torture-based information quickly enough to find Osama bin Laden. Maya is given typically zealous, violent language like "I'm gonna kill bin Laden!" and the film becomes a cycle of torture to get information, that information not coming quite quickly enough, another terrorist attack, hasty arrests, more torture, etc. That narrative, by the way, moved the story of "Zaro Dark Thirty" from one of the CIA or one of the military to that of a single, doggedly determined CIA agent.
But it did happen and she was, as she explained, merely relating the truth. She wasn't apologizing or advocating for torture. Even if it was a fictionalized narrative, and the perspective was mostly from the character of Maya Harris. It was her goal, she said, to merely record what happened as it happened, without judgment. Kathryn Bigelow defended herself during the controversy by describing herself as a combination filmmaker and journalist. Surely this would be a time of angry pop music opposing the famously messy and subterfuge-infused military actions in the Middle East.
As citizens, we may have lost power of a brazenly corrupt government, or a violent and frustratingly automated military machine that is spinning into torture and lies, but we do - at the very least - have control over how we talk about it and criticize it in out art.
This is a phrase often heard in times of political upheaval. Some artists and audiences who opposed the military actions looked back to protest songs of the Vietnam War, or to the punk backlash against Ronald Reagan, and took a deep sigh and repeated the mantra, "At least we'll get some good art out of this." Bush administration, many curious things happened to popular culture. When the United States became involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and began the general War on Terror during George W. However, it's most remembered for the controversies that surrounded it. Kathryn Bigelow's 2012 film "Zero Dark Thirty," which starred Jessica Chastain as CIA analyst Maya Harris and depicted the hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was nominated in a handful of categories at the 2013 Academy Awards and went home with an Oscar for best sound editing.
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