Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Film: Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow

A film about the Iraq war, and the bomb disposal team and their tour of duty. There are a lot of suspenseful sequences of defusing bombs, and action sequences which depict what fire fights must be like (lots of inaccurate shooting because of the conditions).

The central character is obsessed with the danger of his job, the fact he faces death at every bomb he is called to defuse. Consequently live away from Iraq seems mundane and humdrum.

An interesting and thought provoking film.

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