Kathryn Bigelow took similar "poetic license" with "Zero Dark Thirty," to the point of making it seem as though torture is what got Bin Laden captured. Since that premise was strongly disputed by those who actually knew something about it, I refused to see that movie. To my mind there's a difference between poetic license and historical revisionism, especially as it relates the highly controversial issue of torturing  human beings. The question for me with "Detroit" is whether or not Bigelow's "poetic license" ventures into the realm of historical revisionism to such a disturbing degree as it does with "Zero Dark Thirty." I'll do a little more research before I see the movie, which I'd like to do, since it's gotten such good reviews and also because I'm a big fan of the young English actor John Boyega.