Zillah Eisenstein on "dark, zero feminism"
re Zero Dark Thirty -
"I actually think that the film presents torture but does so in very careful and limited fashion. I had prepared myself for the scenes and was ready to divert my eyes when I could bare no more. But I never had to divert my eyes. The audience was treated too kindly. We were not made to see the horrors of torture. There were glimpses and the rest was left for us to imagine, or not. We did not see the destruction of the human soul nor the horror of a broken human being. Torture leaves one no space to breathe. The fear is unrelenting. The humiliation is uncontrolled. If the film had been brave enough to really show us torture and its aftermath, there would be no condoning or normalising it.
So, for me, the real problem with ZDT is that it lets the audience and the American public think that terrible things are allowable because they are doable. A courageous telling of the US anti-terror narrative would demand critique and defiance.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/2013120121530123614.html
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