Zero Dark Thirty

   I'm so glad the Emma Stone hype is finally over because now people can focus on another actor from The Help, Jessica Chastain.  You know, the good one?  With all the films she's been in lately this girl is on fire.  A character actor she is not.  I've only seen a few movies that she has been in, and all were very different causing her to be able to portray many different characters in a believable way.  Her performance as a C.I.A. agent actively involved in the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty has brought her her first nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.  I haven't witnessed the other women nominated for this award in their current films yet so I can't quite judge.  However, I do believe that she has a long acting life ahead of her, and if she doesn't get the Oscar this time, I don't doubt she will eventually.
    There has been controversy with this film, not only with the amount of torture being portrayed, but the fact that there is any torture at all.  Senators are furious with Kathryn Bigelow's (Oscar winner for Best Director-The Hurt Locker) decision to show audiences that torture was used to lead the C.I.A. to Osama's hiding spot. They insist torture was not used during the post 9/11 events.  Whether or not this is true (I leave my opinion out as this is not a political blog but a movie review blog), I do believe that Kathryn Bigelow was robbed for an Oscar nom for Best Director again.  However, that didn't stop the Academy for nominating Zero Dark Thirty for Best Picture.  A well deserved nomination, however I don't think it will win with all the controversy (even though I personally don't think it's as bad as the controversy following Django Unchained).
   Other nominations this film received were:  Best Achievement in Editing, Best Achievement in Sound Editing, and Best Original Screenplay.  Yeah I got nothing.  No one really cares about Editing or Sound Editing, plus my vote goes to Life of Pi which is a totally different blog yet to come.  As for writing, it was pretty good.  Sorry I don't have much else to say, but I was really excited to type this blog so I can praise Jessica Chastain, and now that I've done that I have nothing left to say.  See the film.  It was good!