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Director defends 'Zero Dark Thirty' torture scenes
Jan. 16, 2013, 8:31 AM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Director Kathryn Bigelow is defending torture scenes in "Zero Dark Thirty," saying the military hunt for Osama bin Laden wasn't free of moral consequences.

The film, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, opens by declaring it's based on firsthand accounts of actual events.

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California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other lawmakers have criticized the film as misleading for suggesting that torture led to the location of bin Laden.

But Bigelow writes in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that torture was part of the story and that the backlash may be misdirected.

She says critics should perhaps direct their anger at those who ordered U.S. torture policies rather than her film.

Bigelow says it seems illogical to make a case against torture by denying the role it played in counterterrorism policy and practices.

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obama is a nut job
Jan 16, 2013 9:30AM
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we should only ask terrorists politely to tell us what they are up to and if they won't answer we should give them some money and gift card to starbucks and let them go, torture to save lives oh goodness no we don't want to hurt a terrorist do we.
RobC61
Jan 16, 2013 8:45AM
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Maybe America needs a little more "in your face" information to see what we have actually done in the name of freedom.
VisionStorm
Jan 16, 2013 8:52AM
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Hey, why condem the use of turture in real life when you can make believe it doesn't happen and condem it when it gets portrayed in a film about real life events that involved the use of torture instead?

 

/sarc

Byrnimal
Jan 16, 2013 9:07AM
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Why doesn't the media ever just bring up the following any time someone questions the use of torture...if torture was used to find the killer of someone you cared for, or would directly assist in finding someone you cared for that was a hostage, would you be so against it?  That should end the conversation right there for all you high and mighty Hollywood types and democrats.  It's not always a black and white issue and to expect no torture or a "lesser" type of torture for every situation is ridiculous.
BPT53
Jan 16, 2013 9:28AM
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Jack Bauer did it all the time.
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