I'm not too upset by the depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thirty as a 24-esque dark necessity, but it's not a good thing. The filmmakers seem to have been a bit careless with the facts, at least according to Jane Mayer, who is an expert on the subject. Artistic license becomes constrained when you open your movie with a statement that the film is based on real events.
Moviemakers can generally do what they want, even if it's irresponsible, and that's fine. It is unfortunate that this movie, as a movie, is actually pretty good and it was made by a talented and popular director, so lots and lots of people will see its misrepresentation of some terrible events in our recent history. Many will be inoculated by their own knowledge and skepticism against taking its depiction as fact, but many will not.
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