——Chris Hedges
The urge to fight is often a strong and deadly addiction. And war is drugs.
--Chris Hengis
I really can't imagine how a woman could make such a film for a man.
"The Hurt Locker", the name translates poorly. The original title of the film is "The Hurt Locker", which means "The Hurt Locker". What he wants to tell is a story about soldiers who hide countless sadness and despair.
This movie is a little bit like a movie - I mean, its scenes are so real, so real that people think it's clearly a recording of a war scene. The hot sun, the steaming land, the wolf-ridden streets, the wreckage of cars, the panicked crowd, the murderous soldiers, and an extra corpse from time to time.
Oh, maybe it's not accurate to describe it as a corpse. Die in this place and all you'll probably be left with is a helmet with some hair and blood sticking to it.
Even, only half.
Be realistic, this is Iraq, this is the battlefield. Here you are faced with a group of suicide bombers, a group of true desperadoes, who have paid for it in ashes. There are no laser weapons, no Superman, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Transformers, no invincible team that crushes everything.
Here, you can only feed on despair and sleep with death. Death rock, whiskey, hard-boiled adult DVDs, bloody TV games and the occasional fight can give their nerves a moment's relief.
The people who came to this place were young and vigorous men, even boys who had just completed the ceremony. They came here with their love for their motherland, their sense of responsibility to the people, and their longing for glory. But it didn't take long for their ideals to be crushed into dust by reality, scattered in the dry wind, and disappeared in the endless Gobi. Some people seem to choose to join the army in order to escape reality, only to find that they have come to a hell that is far more cruel than reality. back? Then stay in this hell for a few months.
So it's not hard to understand why some people's minds go to a cliff. It's that simple: the bolt is pulled, and you live, the bolt is buckled, and you're dead. A life was wiped out, but only for a few milliseconds when the index finger was twitched.
I have seen a TV series related to the Iraq War before, called "OVER THERE". The description of the war scene in that TV series is also extraordinarily realistic. The depiction of cruel and even bloody scenes has touched everyone's bottom line. And this movie, there are two scenes that can shatter everyone's bottom line: one is when James disposes of the bomb inside the kid, and one is at the end of the movie when James yells "I'm sorry, I can't help you" and leaves the loaded explosive. when civilians flee.
The first scene, I believe everyone is mixed with extreme collapse and anger in addition to extreme disgust. At that time, James must have been thinking: How could a child, a ten-year-old child who played football with him and sold DVDs to himself, appeared in this bomb den and lay on the executioner's operating table, Why was he covered with blood and scars, how was his stomach opened, and how was he turned into a human bomb to destroy others? ! ? !
I always believe that children are a pure white piece of paper, their lives should only be painted with bright flowers, they should only be cared for and protected by adults, if they have any problems, do something bad, all Mistakes should only be blamed on adults. Although this idea is a bit extreme, shouldn't it be the case?
Any adult who uses a child as a tool to do evil should die. There shouldn't be an exception.
The second scene, I believe everyone will feel a sense of helplessness deep into the bone. Let's face it. You have the ability to save the life in front of you; you have the ability to let him return home, reunite with his wife and children, and live a good life. But there is no time, there is really no time... The only thing you can do is to run away and avoid becoming a funeral object; the only thing you can do is to watch this life disappear in front of your eyes.
If no one had a bomb strapped to him, if things didn't delay that long, if he didn't have that many grimlocks on him, if there was a hydraulic pliers nearby, if only a little more time, a little more...
not so much if. Only God can save this man. And we are only human. It's just a weak human being...
Other things about movies: movies with such a strong sense of realism are rare. On the screen, the camera angle of the robot; the sand pile that expanded after the bomb exploded; the paint and rust from the scrap car was shaken by the shock wave; the blood on the helmet of the bomb disposal man after being shocked by the shock wave; and the sniper gun during the desert battle Shots of opposite shots; flies crawling under the soldier's eyelids; loess thickening on the soldier's face; blah, blah, blah. In terms of the atmosphere of the scene, the soldiers' daily life and pastimes, their weakness in the face of accumulated psychological problems, the soldiers' exaggerated roars at the crowd when they go out on a mission, the local people's fear, disgust and even hatred of the soldiers, when the more and more people gather at the mission site. The more panic of the soldiers, and many other scenes. These are extremely realistic. The only downside is that the bomb disposal process is not very impressive. Of course, it does not rule out the possibility that the director hates the old routine and is eager to find another way. The realism of the plot, I personally think the arrangement is appropriate and very logical. Although the overall rhythm of the movie is slow, there are not many scenes that make people burst with adrenaline. But I personally feel that it has surpassed movies such as "Black Hawk Down". The only downside is the ending. It's really hard to accept personally, how could such an excellent movie have such a Hollywood-style idiot ending. Of course, it is certain that the flaws are not concealed.
As the biggest winner of this year's Oscar, I personally think it is well-deserved. Although the voice of "Avatar" is very high, there is really no breakthrough in "Avatar" in terms of plot. Although it has a revolutionary picture, it still cannot suppress the powerful strength of the "Bomb Hurt Unit". And the viewing plan of this movie, please include it in the "must do schedule".
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