This is about as much as we're likely to learn about the raid that took out Osama bin Laden and, for a few moments at least, quenched our thirst for revenge against the man who planned and financed the terrorist attack against the World Trade Center.
The documentary follows the same story that's presented in Kathryn Bigelow's movie, "Zero Dark Thirty," but without the feminist heroine of Jessica Chastain. The absence of Jessica Chastain is nothing compared to the popular social media that became pustular with political positions.
A couple of books have been written by "eye witnesses" among the Navy Seal team, two of whose members independently claim to have fired the shot that killed bin Laden. Some comments at the time -- 2011 -- refused to grant the president, who had risked so much, any credit for the attack since he wasn't actually on the site and pulling the trigger. They were happy with the outcome but argued that all the credit should go to Seal Team Six. This position was argued so vehemently that one couldn't help getting the impression that the posters would rather have Osama bin Laden free than see the president receive any credit at all for his demise. No kidding.
This documentary fills in several blank spaces in Bigelow's feature film, which gives the impression that the decision to go ahead with the attack was made in five minutes, whereas in fact the team had been training for the mission in a full-scale mock up of Bin Laden's compound.
It's a pretty objective film.
The documentary follows the same story that's presented in Kathryn Bigelow's movie, "Zero Dark Thirty," but without the feminist heroine of Jessica Chastain. The absence of Jessica Chastain is nothing compared to the popular social media that became pustular with political positions.
A couple of books have been written by "eye witnesses" among the Navy Seal team, two of whose members independently claim to have fired the shot that killed bin Laden. Some comments at the time -- 2011 -- refused to grant the president, who had risked so much, any credit for the attack since he wasn't actually on the site and pulling the trigger. They were happy with the outcome but argued that all the credit should go to Seal Team Six. This position was argued so vehemently that one couldn't help getting the impression that the posters would rather have Osama bin Laden free than see the president receive any credit at all for his demise. No kidding.
This documentary fills in several blank spaces in Bigelow's feature film, which gives the impression that the decision to go ahead with the attack was made in five minutes, whereas in fact the team had been training for the mission in a full-scale mock up of Bin Laden's compound.
It's a pretty objective film.
