Why Maya cries at the end :
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Zero Dark Thirty
voight84 — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 05:23 AM)
As she stated before she was recruited directly from high School ,has no friends(except for the Lady that got killed during the bombing) , no loved one and spent the Major part of her life as an adult hunting for Bin laden.so catching bin laden was the only Goal she ever knew and after that was gone she did not know how to proceed her life.remember she starts softening right after the Pilot asks her where she wants to go.that Moment she realized that she does not really have another Goal in her life and does not even havce an answer to the question where she wants to go..i always disliked the thought that she felt bad for being responsible of killing bin lkaden.so the reason she cries is that she just realized hopw empty her life is
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ChocolateButt — 11 years ago(January 28, 2015 10:13 PM)
Yeah, I doubt that she felt guilt over UBL. She may have been uncomfortable and conflicted about the torture, which is understandable, but at the end of the day she was all about that greater good
Maybe she cried because of the futility of it all, as well as the fact that she basically had nothing to live for anymore. Years of work end in a body bag at the back of a tent, but the 'war or terror' isn't done.
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kchilds59 — 11 years ago(February 05, 2015 09:29 AM)
I believe tears flowed because the object of her passion was no more. Maya, of course, had zero empathy for the mass murderer OBL was. But after he was eliminated, finality set in. She suddenly realized how empty her life had been during the pursuit and thus had no clue where to go next.
Sort of reminds me of the story told toward the end of WWII movie "Conspiracy" where Keven Branagh's character, General Heydrich, talked about a man who grieved at the loss of his abusive father.
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ollie911 — 10 years ago(May 18, 2015 10:10 AM)
I posted on another thread that I have often cried heavily after a period of great stress, anxiety, fear or an adrenaline rush (panic?). It is incredibly cleansing for both the mind and the body, in my opinion. Not sure if only women do this, as some have suggested..but I have indeed seen grown men cry over far less than a decades-long hunt for a mass murderer. Such as athletes crying win they win a big tournament or Super Bowl or a National Championship. I wish I could do it as often as I used to, but any more I prefer to go out with friends, hoist a cold one and use the line from "Risky Business" "Sometimes you just gotta sayWTF."
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Loincloth — 10 years ago(August 17, 2015 09:02 AM)
Sort of reminds me of the story told toward the end of WWII movie "Conspiracy" where Keven Branagh's character, General Heydrich, talked about a man who grieved at the loss of his abusive father
That's actually an excellent parallel (from another excellent film) that hadn't occurred to me. Well done. -
sanfelici — 10 years ago(August 26, 2015 11:42 PM)
I think it's also because she's finally finding closure about the friends who'd died during all those years, specially her closest friend who died at the meeting sequence. Remember she didn't cry then and got right back to work, to "kill the ones who'd done it AND bin laden". She was from then on in a personal crusade and has all these mixed feelings at the end of the movie.
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Ithilfaen — 10 years ago(January 18, 2016 01:32 AM)
so the reason she cries is that she just realized hopw empty her life is
It's always been very obvious to me. Not only because Chastain is an excellent actress who doesn't need hystrionics to convey emotions BUT also because they made a point of making her say that was all she'd done since High School basically, and that she had no friends, no boyfriend, nothing but her work, which was that one mission.
Also, she's pretty much numb from the moment they say they got the target but she only starts crying after that pilot asks where she wants to go. She has no purpose, nowhere to go to. That's what finally makes her break down.
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bigsoundp — 9 years ago(June 17, 2016 09:26 PM)
It reminds me of Brett Favre saying the night the Packers won the Super Bowl, he had a moment of sadness, cause after a lifetime of working his way to that goal, he had now achieved it.
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heisenberg12 — 9 years ago(June 18, 2016 11:28 AM)
Interesting and well said because what I got from it, among other things mentioned, was that becoming a hero is a great mountainous feat, but also one that is lonely in the end, where one must ultimately decide what to do next with their life since they gave all of themselves for a cause. That and tying into how she hadn't done anything else since high school. Awesome movie. 10/10. True masterpiece.