Film · Summit · 2008
The Hurt Locker
50Watch it awake.
The skill is not the same thing as a reason. Adults. The wife is the witness. Watch awake.
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The review
Kathryn Bigelow's sergeant, William James, takes over a bomb unit that has just lost a man. He is brilliant and he is careless with the people beside him. The film's great scene is not an explosion. It is a supermarket, after, where the abundance of a home country means nothing to him. He goes back.
Adults. This is the cousin of American Sniper and it makes a similar mistake if you let it: the competence is so absorbing that a room forgets to ask whether a man who cannot live at home is a model or a wound. Say wound. Admire the nerve if you must. Do not hand his restlessness to a boy as a personality worth having.
Journal
Keep The Hurt Locker in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Courage Under Fire
63 instead of 50
Courage Under Fire is still a war film, and it scores 63 instead of 50. What you gain is republic: An institution handing out its highest medal has a reason to need the story clean.
The eight
- 8Industry
Defusing a bomb is a craft, and the film understands the craft.
- 4Household
A wife and a child and a cereal aisle. He cannot enter his own kitchen.
- 2Piety
No faith. The bomb is the only liturgy he has, and that is the sickness.
- 7Courage
He walks toward the device. Courage, and also a man who needs the device.
- 4Republic
The Army is a set of rules he treats as optional. The film notices and still half admires him.
- 3Temperance
The tension is the product. You are invited to need the next bomb too.
- 7Truth
The addiction is named. The grocery store is the truthful scene.
- 5Stewardship
What it leaves is a man who will choose the war over the house. Do not call that a compliment.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · The Hurt Locker · 50IMDb tt0887912