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“These are the facts, but not the truth.”
While the former American president who has become the investigator of the special commission, George Mullen (Robert de Niro), gives a closing speech culminating in the final scene of the new political thriller of Netflix Zero dayIt is this admission that comes to the heart of the message of the program on the importance of truth in today’s world.
Created by producer Eric Newman (Primordial American,, Narcos) and the former president of NBC News, Noah Oppenheim, and produced by the winner of the Emmy Lesli Linke Glatter (Country,, Mad Men), the series of six episodes, now in streaming, follows Mullen while trying to find the authors of a national cyberatthe which briefly crushes the electrical network of the United States – causing thousands of deaths and causing general panic – Before you can knock again. However, Mullen is also dealing with his own demons, including gaps in memory and hearing and visual hallucinations, which make him (and those around him) question his judgment.
The final of Zero day manages to provide a satisfactory conclusion to its history of aging and the formerly reassessed leader of De Niro, summoned in action by current Potus Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett) to reach this unprecedented threat. While the series leaves a few questions to open – we have stayed to decide ourselves if Mullen’s disorientation is the result of early dementia or a top secret neurological weapon known as Proteus – we get to less answers on the orchestrated The zero day attack and what they thought was doing.
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Who was behind the zero day attack?
After the subsequent arrest and apparent suicide of the technological billionaire Monica Kidder (Gaby Hoffmann) in the penultimate episode, we learn the full extent of the involvement of Mullen’s daughter, Alex (Lizzy Caplan) and Several of his colleagues from Congress in the zero day of the day route.
During a meeting of the group at the office of the president of the room Richard Dreyer (Matthew Modine), Alex reveals that she had the impression that zero day would be “a minute of shock of the system” which would put power in good hands For a few months, restore faith in the government and put the country back on the right track. She never wanted anyone who is injured and begs the group to clean up. However, Dreyer insists that they have to finish what they started.
When the electricity network goes down once again, a threat to its Mullen security forces to try to flee its New York compound in the north of the state despite the demonstrators of the doors. Chaos and violence ensue, but the director of the CIA, Jeremy Lasch (Bill Camp), presents himself just in time for Secret Mullen while reports are sent that he was killed. Lasch explains that he and President Mitchell had powerful suspicions of zero day involved actors in the interior of the government, which is why they needed someone outside the normal canals, like Mullen, to investigate.
When Mullen confronts Alex in her apartment, she explains how Kidder went on board and proposed to deploy the malware used for the attack via applications belonging to his Panoply company only after the idea was prepared by Dreyer and his lacch. She then asks for help from her father.
Mullen summons Dreyer to a secret meeting and threatens to arrest him, but Dreyer does not suggest so politically a different line of conduct: he and the rest of the guilty members of the congress will resign when their terms are sold, Mullen can blame Zero Day on Kidder And Shady Billionaire, investor Robert Lyndon (Clark Gregg), and this can be the end. If Mullen does not agree, Alex will come with everyone.
During the delivery of the final report of the Zero Day commission before a joint session of the congress, Mullen begins again to hear the song that played when he found the body of his last son. This pushes him to stop his prepared speech and talk about the heart of the reason why the truth is important. He then reads from a letter that Alex left her in which she admits to her involvement and declares that she plans to turn around.
Despite the personal, professional and national consequences at stake, Mullen chooses to publicly disclose the identity of all those who were behind the fatal attack on cyberterrorism of the zero day which is shaken in America to its heart. Mullen clearly hopes that his honesty will lead at the beginning of a new chapter for his deeply fragmented country and will help the American people come together to face a common enemy. It is a bit bittersness end, with the latest scenes from the series involving that Mullen has now lost the rest of his family in search of what was “good”.
Of course, in real life, it does not seem that there can be such a simple solution to the disastrous state of contemporary American polarization. As TIME Television criticism Judy Berman said: “The extreme efforts of the show to avoid offense, bromures on the truth and freedom it offers instead of more specific and potentially controversial perspectives, feel a Little like a betrayal of his hero of the complaint. ”
