Saw Zero Dark Thirty, by Kathryn Bigelow.

This movie according to many glorified torture. I wonder if anyone who believes this actually watched the damn movie?

There were torture scenes, and they were horrible. Yes, they are in the movie. These scenes are presented without music, without ornamentation, without many cuts. They are utterly horrifying in their unflinching revelation of the vileness and loathsomeness of torture. Every moment is uncomfortable to watch and is drawn out far too long (for a reason, of course — see above!)

The people who believed these scenes somehow glorify torture — are they psychopaths? There nearly has to be something wrong with them. Only someone not at all connected to humanity in any way could have seen any glorification, any justification, for treating another human being that way as presented by this film. To glorify something is to attempt to give the viewer some sort of thrill, some sort of charge, and if you got either of those things from the scenes in Zero Dark Thirty, then you have far more missing pieces than I do.

The whole fucking point of those scenes is of course that no matter if valid intelligence was gained by such methods, it wasn’t worth it. Nothing was worth that. Else why show 10 minutes of torture that seemed like two hours when it all could have been elided over in a 10-second clip?

There is a school of thought that to show something at all is to somehow glorify it. This is a valid argument, sometimes. But the scenes in Zero Dark Thirty probably did more to turn more people against torture than all the congressional reports and CNN newscasts ever did.

Not only are many people wrong about the film, they’d also fail Film 101 were they ever to take the class.