I went to see "The Hurt Locker" this evening and have just arrived home; I didn't get to the end for reasons that those of you I care enough about to have told, will know.
The film starts with a bang (no cliche here, naturally) and brings up the question of some of the more questionable actions of the US in Iraq in the recent past. It also deals with the type of US jingoism last seen in such works of cinematic one-dimensionalism as "Air Force One" and "Saving Private Ryan".
Lead actor appears to display symptoms of hypomania and is a straight-from-central-casting US anti-hero. As for the quality of the soldiering displayed: as Churchill might attest to there are a lot of very high quality American soldiers but my God their over-enthusiasm and over-optimism can be grating and this film plays heavily on it.
My experience of this film is based on only seeing the first 58 minutes before I had to leave. On that basis, if bangs, flashes and "all soldiers are good" / "killing the enemy is noble" are your thing, you'll love it.
The film starts with a bang (no cliche here, naturally) and brings up the question of some of the more questionable actions of the US in Iraq in the recent past. It also deals with the type of US jingoism last seen in such works of cinematic one-dimensionalism as "Air Force One" and "Saving Private Ryan".
Lead actor appears to display symptoms of hypomania and is a straight-from-central-casting US anti-hero. As for the quality of the soldiering displayed: as Churchill might attest to there are a lot of very high quality American soldiers but my God their over-enthusiasm and over-optimism can be grating and this film plays heavily on it.
My experience of this film is based on only seeing the first 58 minutes before I had to leave. On that basis, if bangs, flashes and "all soldiers are good" / "killing the enemy is noble" are your thing, you'll love it.
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