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Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Written by Mark Boal ( The Hurt Locker ) Music by Alexandre Desplat Premise:   A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011. My thoughts on the movie: Due to the recent events  the movies being shown on TV are similar  to those events that I was able to watch this film. I have been wanting to see this since this was initially released because it has a powerhouse cast and according to press releases, this movie was based on first-hand accounts.  That meant that there was little room for fiction.  Of course, some of the names had to be fictionalized and for cinematic effect, some scenes were exaggerated a bit. Sorry to spoil this for some of you, but there was a part in the movie that actually happened in real life, that could have been avoided.  It was when the Jo...

It took a while before this movie reached our shores. This was shown first in October last year for a short time, then it was released again this month after The 82nd  Academy Awards.  I don't know if there's a deeper story behind it.  Normally, I would check, but I don't think I'll bother.   Let me just talk about what I think instead. I like the team up of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal. The story was very moving and the direction was superb.  It made me seem to experience war first hand and I know deep in my heart that I wouldn't want to experience it for real .  My heart was torn to pieces several times.  There were people I wanted to save and when one of them practically exploded, I felt like dying too. The Iraq war is one of the biggest mistakes in the world.  Hey, I'm just making a comment and I don't want to wage war against anyone, but I hope it never happened.  War is really stupid! A lot of innocents become casualties. ...