Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’: The CIA Analyst Who Tracked Down Osama bin Laden
Written and directed by “The Hurt Locker” Oscar-winners Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty,” the title of their subsequent war film, is military lingo for 12:30 a.m. the time that SEAL Team Six’s stealth-attack on Osama bin Laden’s hidden lair in Pakistan took place.
Following the 9/11 destruction by terrorist organization Al Qaeda that killed 3,000 Americans, newbie CIA agent Maya (Jessica Chastain), along with a committed group of fellow analysts, begins a 12-year, no-stone-unturned, workaholic, investigative siege to track down bin Laden’s whereabouts.