I probably know why I didn’t. I want to watch this movie so much. The whole movie just doesn't know when it will explode, when there will be bullets, and when will someone hang it up. The tension is high and it seems a bit stressful. Of course, this is the director's intention. Many viewers should also enjoy this exciting process. This is not a problem, just like some people like to play roller coasters and some don't, some people are used to having heavy tastes and others lightly eating.
Everyone knows that this film is about bomb disposal, but after two or three scenes of bomb disposal, the director knew that the audience could not watch the same scene for more than two hours, so he changed the scene to a different scene, and finally returned to the end. Go to the bomb disposal to make the knot. In many cases, it feels like a video game with one level after another. Probably, video games can be made full of life now. There is not much difference between a real battlefield and a computer game in the movie. The obsession and fatigue of this kind of war is probably also the director's intention.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and her photographers know very well how to present the images and atmosphere of war. Realistic accuracy and moderate formal aesthetics can be said to be a show of Hollywood war film technology. The male protagonist’s crazy cowboy image and realistic battlefield depiction actually have a contradictory tension, which is probably a bit of a metaphysical flavor. The actor found his truth on the battlefield, but he felt a huge illusion in the reality after returning home, but to me it was actually a bit misplaced, just like another black supporting actor thought the other way around after experiencing the battlefield. Embrace the family.
This kind of misplacement between the real and the fake, before and after the screen, inside and outside the United States, is really a kind of unexpected fun. The director tried his best to create reality in the film, including the filming location of the whole film very close to Iraq, but in the end the film presents a genre drill that has been digested by Hollywood, technically realistic or realistic detailed narrative. It's one thing, but what is true in the two-hour movie may be different. Of course, this may have nothing to do with the director's creative intentions, it may just be an obsession with the form of war in the film.
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