As the Tagline goes. War is a drug......Hurt locker is one of the best war movies ever made.Director Katherin Bigelow has done a great job.The movie throws light into the lives of the lesser known bomb squad tech units operating in Iraq. From the start to end the movie keeps you on the edge of your seat - ferociously suspenseful. The thoughts , frustration, helplessness and egos of men at war are portrayed beautifully.
The movie says the happenings in a 40 day rotation period of a Bomb squad unit named Bravo company operating in Iraq. [SPOILER ALERT]Bravo company have just lost its team leader in an diffusing operation. A new specialist joins the squad, srgt. William James(Jeremy Renner). James is an high wired , high adrenalin rush fellow. He goes to extreme risk taking while in
diffusing operations. His two company mates are Srgt. JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Elridge(Brain Gerathy). Sanborn who is the team leader is not always approved of James's high risk actions. There is always differences between James and Sanborn, yet they always acts as a team. The movie moves through one diffusing operations to another.
They are always living on the edge, the death which is at a wirecut away, they can feel sound of death which at the end of tick of the timer. But for James this risk gives him the high. He enjoys the life on the razor edge, its like adrug to him. And in the end James wilderness causes injury to Elridge.
The fear in the minds of men at line of fire is portrayed through the characters. Their frustration about this never ending war. Their feeling that no one gives a shit even if they die in this war. Dreams of many young soldiers of starting a family, but they never know they will reach home back alive.
We can see the agony and gory of bombing and suicide bomb attacks, and disgusting human bombs used in the war and also the hate of local people towards military occupancy.
The dry bright yellowish colour texture of the movie add to the feel of heat and dryness of Iraqi landscape.As usual like all western war movies it doesn’t show what misery the war have brought to the people of Iraq. Yet the background of the country in shambles gives you a feel about the life of people who live in constant fear of bombings and attacks. The sound of gunshots have become music their life.
The movie end with a hypocritical note about the never ending war.
Congrats to Katherin Bigelow for the BAFTA win.
I give it 8/10 rating.
The movie says the happenings in a 40 day rotation period of a Bomb squad unit named Bravo company operating in Iraq. [SPOILER ALERT]Bravo company have just lost its team leader in an diffusing operation. A new specialist joins the squad, srgt. William James(Jeremy Renner). James is an high wired , high adrenalin rush fellow. He goes to extreme risk taking while in
diffusing operations. His two company mates are Srgt. JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Elridge(Brain Gerathy). Sanborn who is the team leader is not always approved of James's high risk actions. There is always differences between James and Sanborn, yet they always acts as a team. The movie moves through one diffusing operations to another.
They are always living on the edge, the death which is at a wirecut away, they can feel sound of death which at the end of tick of the timer. But for James this risk gives him the high. He enjoys the life on the razor edge, its like adrug to him. And in the end James wilderness causes injury to Elridge.
The fear in the minds of men at line of fire is portrayed through the characters. Their frustration about this never ending war. Their feeling that no one gives a shit even if they die in this war. Dreams of many young soldiers of starting a family, but they never know they will reach home back alive.
We can see the agony and gory of bombing and suicide bomb attacks, and disgusting human bombs used in the war and also the hate of local people towards military occupancy.
The dry bright yellowish colour texture of the movie add to the feel of heat and dryness of Iraqi landscape.As usual like all western war movies it doesn’t show what misery the war have brought to the people of Iraq. Yet the background of the country in shambles gives you a feel about the life of people who live in constant fear of bombings and attacks. The sound of gunshots have become music their life.
The movie end with a hypocritical note about the never ending war.
Congrats to Katherin Bigelow for the BAFTA win.
I give it 8/10 rating.
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