
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
Why Theory
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The Final Cut of Zero Dark Thirty
When in America, when you make a movie about the US military, it actually has to get cleared through the Pentagon. And so that movie has, there's a gross thing about like actionable intelligence being achieved through torture, which then have never happened. That is total, yeah. Ideological fantasy. But I think that tends to be how I read the end of that film. It's pretty good. You know, Rick Booth, when he first saw it, had exactly your reading of it but now he's revised his view of it because it's so the ideological distortion about the torture. Yeah. Exactly. He stole it from you clearly.
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