Why is it called Day Zero???

duh

"Because it's judgement that defeats us." - Apocalypse Now.

Well my reasons are this:

Firstly, "Day Zero" is not a very common term used to denote a departure date. In fact, the existence of such a topic goes to show how obscure the phrase is, if it is an actual phrase at all.

Secondly, as we have seen from official statements, this is not so much a movie about their departure...as you said, the movie focuses more on the internal self reflection of the main characters and not so much on "Day Zero".

If its thirty days, just calling the movie "30 Days" would have been cool. And if you want something pollitically relevant, you could even call it "Surge", in reference to how the US Govt. wants more troops in Iraq. As you can see, the former comes across more as an emotional human drama, while the latter conveys the political aspect more.

But in any case, its only a title, and some movies have titles which aren't all that relevant to the film in the first place anyway. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to slight the makers of this film and I apologize if it came across that way, I just feel that a movie such as this should have a title that does it justice. When I saw the title I thought this was gonna be some big budget scifi blockbuster or some movie which deals vaguely with Jesus. I'm just concerned, because, and it does seems to be the case here, that people might be getting the wrong impression abt this film.