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The Hurt Locker (2008)



Kathryn Bigelow
with Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lilly

Two words, it is worth paying for The Hurt Locker, another favorite movie (and most candidates) for the Academy Awards. Two words, because the topic is too complex to be addressed in detail, not in terms of cinema, but the significance of this scene in the film industry. The Hurt Locker is a hard film, from the technical director and photography, which are aimed to describe in a completely objective one episode, a history, but also a History with a capital S, which inevitably would empty rhetoric. The protagonist is a U.S. Army explosives expert work on the front lines in Iraq, and the camera follows in a neutral manner, but for this even more intense, his experiences, his life always hanging by a thread, just a few meters or centimeters by murderous weapons that the intention of those who have built, serve only to kill. A life, his, who leaves every ideal and hope to become better, but eventually discovers focus on social value, as well as military. But The Hurt Locker is not just the story of a man, is the story of many men, in fact the protagonist is only a substitute of artifice that before he worked in the same team, but that is left in the field, is the story of an obsession with war, which does not allow those who have lived to forget once back home, but it is as in a tunnel with no exit, from which he never wants to go out, they 'can. After Iraq, the director wants to tell us, there is nothing, if not another war, and it is better to return to the battlefield to fight against himself 'themselves.

From a purely cinematic point of view, as mentioned above, dominated by a desire for realism, hyper realism, perhaps, muted only an insignificant part of the attribution of past epic feats to taste all-American hero and a part of although slight sentimentality. It 'calls for a while mentioned comparison with 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, which is surely the borrower artistic side: if in the latter film led to a hyper-realism exacerbated tension of the concept, history and character, producing a masterpiece, The Hurt Locker that fails, but not in an absolute sense, only in relation to a vision by those who, like us, not belonging to the American people and all the suffering that has lived underground in recent years. This does not mean you can not find this in some message or feeling in which we find ourselves, but certainly that anyone has responded, and sincerely acclamerà this film as a masterpiece without being American will operate an intellectual forcing must be considered artificial.

Rating: 6.5 / 10

Update 08/03: Trivia: With little surprise victory of the two most coveted Oscar (film and director) and another four for The Hurt Locker becomes part of the history of entertainment including film Gears of Wars, which is consumed in the film one of the few leisure moments for soldiers.