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Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty

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There are many documentary elements depicted by the director Kathryn Bigelow in the historical drama thriller genre Zero Dark Thirty. A documentary per se includes the opinion of the film maker on the explicit meaning and cinematic issues they depict, and this film is not a documentary. However, there are similarities of fictional reenactments in the film giving the film a documentary feel. In fact, what depicts realism is the plot that seems to contain a historic event that leads up the death of the most-wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden by the United States Navy's premier counter-terrorist unit S.E.A.L Team Six. Director Kathryn Bigelow’s use of hand-held camera (shaky camera) techniques as in a documentary style, allows the viewers to feel

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