Before watching Zero Dark Thirty, I wouldn't have thought it'd be possible for a movie that dealt with torture in the 'war on terror' to do so neutrally - in that the very attempt at neutrality would tend to seem at least a tacit endorsement of its use. But actually I think the film more or less does avoid taking any kind of line on the practice - it becomes one link in the film's overall chain of action/dramatic moments, funnelled along with everything else towards the (in the context of the film as a creative construct) greater goal of story. Film itself is quite good, but as often with this kind of film, didn't leave me feeling as I'd got anything in particular out of it beyond a couple of hours of entertainment.
