Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" has inspired passionate debate about whether the waterboarding it depicts really helped lead Navy SEALS to a secret Pakistani compound where they killed Osama bin Laden.
But the film has also -- almost imperceptibly -- changed our national debate about toture by illustrating waterboarding for a mass audience for the first time.
http://www.thewrap.com/deal-central/movies/article/zero-dark-thirty-sparks-torture-debate-it-right-one-74666
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