Consider the embarrassment to President Barack Obama and his advisers if they had turned out to be publicly, sensationally, embarrassingly wrong. The film's first two hours or so consist of a struggle between the Maya faction and the Maya non-believers, and the stakes are huge in the decision to pull the trigger. Here is a disagreement between the time-honored methods of espionage and a quicker, more intuitive approach involving a hunch too good to be true. What takes imagination is to act on it - to back her hunch with the impulse to believe it is plausible. To Maya, however, that is the whole beauty of bin Laden's scheme one is reminded of Poe's "The Purloined Letter": It is wise to conceal something in plain sight. Most of the film involves the search of the allied side, including the tracing down of leads that many Americans considered too obvious and in plain sight to be plausible. In reality, when the terrorist was finally tracked down and taken out, the universal astonishment was that his hiding place was a large, walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and that his residence there was relatively widely known - in the same area, anyway, as the location of a Pakistan military college.
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