Bigelow's film defines the pro-government style of Bush/Cheney era War on Terror policies, which promote Dan's torture of terrorist suspects as effective in finding Bin Laden. Beatings, sexual humiliation, and other forms of torture define the militaristic style of information extraction, which Zero Dark Thirty promotes as effective and ethical in the political culture of the 2000s and 2010s. In contrast to this pro view -governmental, Zwick presents a film as a cautionary tale about martial law and increasing militaristic torture techniques, deemed unacceptable in the late 1990s. This anti-government view depicts the arrest of General Devereaux as a war criminal arrested by Agent Hubbard. However, both of these films present the war on terrorism in American politics as overtly militaristic in large-scale military operations and procedures aimed at capturing individuals in small terrorist cells. These are the similar and different aspects of pro-government and anti-government depictions of the War on Terror that were examined in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and Edward's The Siege (1998)..