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Title: THE HURT LOCKER
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Year: 2009
Reviewed: October 02, 2009
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Four Course Meal-Highest Rating |
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"The Hurt Locker" is a wonderfully fantastic and poignant movie. In the same manner that "Platoon" brought home the absurdity, violence, chaos, and degradation of the Vietnam war, so does "The Hurt Locker" shine a utterly denuding and blinding light on the same ridiculousness of what is fast becoming this generations version of the Vietnam war. All of this is made even more profound, when you realize, as I did, that the entire film was written, produced, and directed by a woman. Which is not to say that a woman cannot do this kind of film, but generally speaking they do NOT; considering that our choices for films to see were a handful of "Rom Com's" masked as dramas, I'm exceedingly happy we chose "The Hurt Locker". "The Hurt Locker" is superb on all accounts: direction, acting, cinematography, script, story, editing, and sound.
There's not much more to say. If you can appreciate war movies that take an unflinching, pragmatic, and agonizing look at the horror and abysmal madness of war, you will find "The Hurt Locker" to be one of your favorites. Suffice it to say, "The Hurt Locker" gets a FOUR COURSE MEAL review.
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