The DVD with the behind-the-scenes of "The Hurt Locker" has been lying on the bookshelf for more than a month. I watched the film on the second day after the Oscar nomination was announced. I was worried that my expectations were too high before I would be disappointed. It turns out that my expectations are actually a bit low. This is the best war movie I've seen in recent years.
Yes, he is more interesting than Jarhead, better than The Kingdom, more stable than Body of Lies, and more meaningful than Traitor ...
Of course, if you watch this movie with the mentality of watching exciting war scenes, you will inevitably be disappointed.
Although there are few battle scenes in this film, it doesn't look dull at all (of course, if you download a clear version from the Internet, it will certainly seem to be discounted). The director has an excellent grasp of the rhythm of the film, and produced the sense of fear (or excitement), the sense of presence and the tense atmosphere of the bomb disposal.
War-themed films mostly reflect how cruel war is to express the theme of anti-war. The film is cut from a relatively novel perspective. The subtitles at the beginning of the film show that "war is addictive" or can be translated as "War is drug" (War is drug), and then the whole film is developed around this theme. Explains to the audience how war can destroy and poison people's hearts and how they are "addictive". The three characters in the bomb disposal team (Blast 1) in the film represent three different mental states:
1. Fear and aversion to war, and have been looking forward to leaving the battlefield and returning to their hometown;
2. Numbness of war and confusion about the future , One day is a day while ensuring safety as much as possible;
3 Alienated by war, turning it into a war machine, and even suffering from war obsessive-compulsive disorder: the protagonist James will dismantle the bomb when he sees it, even the bomb in the corpse , Wore a bomb disposal helmet to sleep, put the bomb parts under the bed... In the end, I couldn't adapt to a normal life, so I chose to return to the battlefield.
It is conceivable that the protagonist James must have experienced the first and second mental states, and then gradually became "addicted" to war. (Note that there is a confrontation in the desert in the film. The youngest character, Eldridge, actually showed an expression of excitement after shooting the enemy on the railroad track with a gun. This shot is worth thinking about.)
This feeling reminds me of Many years ago, Leslie Cheung starred in "The Gun King", it seems that the protagonist kept killing people because of "pleasure and addiction." Of course, the "addiction" in "The Hurt Locker" is much more complicated than this. It does not mean simply enjoying the thrill of war. It is more about the destruction and alienation of human psychology by war, which makes people become "Abnormal" and thus controlled by the war, and even unable to return to daily life.
In short, "The Hurt Locker" is a very good movie, and it is also an anti-war movie (Some people actually don't see the obvious anti-war theme of this film, but they see that this film is just making excuses for the war in Iraq. Even a tribute to Iraqi soldiers), he is definitely worthy of an Oscar statuette. But in my opinion, although the film is worthy of an Oscar, it does not have the "Oscar appearance" (if compared with "Avatar"), but the best director award should be very likely (of course I still prefer Quentin Award).
PS I personally hope that the best film and the best director will be produced from the two films "The Hurt Locker" and "Nowhere Bastard", and the other two films I personally look forward to "Growth Education" An Education and "Serious Man" A Serious Man hasn't seen it yet and hopes to bring surprises again.
After all, "Avatar" and Kashen have got enough, basically no Oscar's affirmation is needed.
PS Speaking of war is addictive. Nowadays, when many people (mainly men) talk about war, they talk about military and other topics. Their eyes are radiating with excitement and endless yearning for war... I don’t know. Is this another addiction? It seems that there are psychological studies that say that this fascination with military and war is also one of the results of sexual repression. Military programs like "Military Observatory" are very popular in China, and it seems reasonable that sexual desire cannot be satisfied. explain. At present, the majority of young and middle-aged males in our country are living in sorrow.
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