Senate Committee to Investigate ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

It looks like the hits just keep coming with Kathryn Bigelow‘s Bin Laden hunting thriller Zero Dark Thirty. First the film caused a stir with its depiction of harsh interrogation tactics, then the wide release got bumped to January 11th, and now there’s a full blown investigation underway.

The Senate Intelligence Committee  has been tasked with looking into the methods and people that were utilized in obtaining information used in the film.  This seems to be a direct result of them crying about some of the scenes in the film, saying they were incorrect.  Here’s director Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal‘s response to the allegations:

We depicted a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods that were used in the name of finding bin Laden. The film shows that no single method was necessarily responsible for solving the manhunt, nor can any single scene taken in isolation fairly capture the totality of efforts the film dramatizes.

It seems to me that the Senate Intelligence Committee has better things to do than pick apart inaccuracies in a movie, like, say, real work that actually involves keeping this country safe? Either way this news makes me even more excited to see Zero Dark Thirty when it hits theaters next Friday.

Source: Reuters