• Print

    ISAS Insights

    Detailed perspectives on developments in South Asia​​

    200 : Zero Dark Thirty and US-Pakistan Relations: A Hostile Future?

    Riaz Hassan, Visiting Research Professor at the ISAS

    27 March 2013

    Since its release in December 2012 the film Zero Dark Thirty has received critical acclaim for dramatising a complex and traumatic event in recent American national life as a cinematic narrative. Its portrayal of political violence and the role of torture ÔÇô euphemistically called ÔÇ×enhanced interrogation techniquesÔǃ ÔÇô is vivid, arresting, confronting and horrifying. For its cinematic achievements the film received five Oscar nominations including the best film of the year.