#ZeroDarkThirty – a pygmy review: Most detective stories are local. "Zero Dark Thirty" is global. It is a story of single-minded obsession so strong that it pulls others along against their wills, and the incisive tools we use to enact our political and cultural reciprocity. It shows our country at its finest...and our most barbaric. It realistically depicts the world of national intelligence – 99% desk-ridden boredom and 1% ferocious adrenaline rush. Director #KathrynBigelow's style – unadorned, unflashy, and as serious and businesslike as the characters she profiles – is sublime. She knows exactly when to step in and steer our emotions, and when to step back and let the story unfold organically. The attack on the bin Laden compound is utterly without music, that most effective of emotive manipulators. And the film is the stronger for it. And when it ends, we are left with a haunting question – when obsession is finally satiated, where is purpose found?

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