James you continue to defuse bombs, I continue to live safely

Josefa 2022-04-21 09:01:14

I don't understand two questions:
1. Why do some very dangerous bombs have to be dismantled on the spot and detonated directly?
2. It is incomprehensible that someone actually treats such a dangerous job as a career, with a brain that wants to stay away from danger and terror forever.

Other feelings:

War is so terrible, but there are always people who don't like it.

Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself - this is a revelation from the technical soldiers. He couldn't bear to shoot Iraqis with cellphones at first, and his comrades were killed by the bombs detonated by cellphones. Because it is impossible to confirm whether the other party is the enemy or not, so I can't bear it. Later, when they encountered the enemy in the field, he saw someone beside the bridge. We had already seen the enemy with robbing, but he was still hesitating. At that time, I was really nervous.

For a selfish person like me, I must kill it first, and I can't wait for others to kill me.

Fortunately, he finally shot, to protect the safety of his own life.

Except for small ants and mosquitoes, I have basically never killed other creatures. However, I am a firm believer that if the need arises, I will remove hazards, even potentially dangerous ones. I'm too timid and too impulsive, so I don't hesitate to shoot - whoever he is!

When the technical soldiers killed the people on the bridge, I started to worry - could it be a friendly army?

If you really let me enlist in the army, the friendly army is so dangerous.


And figured it out -

no matter what happens tomorrow, the most important thing is to live in the present.

What if I was Iraqi? Just look at the Iraqis around when the bomb was defused. When the cannonballs fly around, the bombs will explode without knowing when, the people around me may disappear for no reason, and I will suddenly be kidnapped and become a human bomb. The terrifying tomorrow will come at any time, and it may never come again. I will also be like those Like people watching the fun, numb and hostile.


Live like tomorrow is the last day, so that when the bomb does go off, it's not a loss.

The sense of mission, which I had when I was young, is completely indifferent now. So I am very puzzled about Williams' choice. He regards bomb disposal as his career and takes saving the people as his own responsibility. I would never choose such a man as a boyfriend, let alone choose such a person as the father of my children.

However, if one day, like the Iraqi man with steel bars fastened to his upper body and bombs tied to his upper body, helpless waiting to die and desperate for help, I hope that there will be a bomb disposer like him by my side. , even if you can't dismantle those bombs, even if you end up like that man, when the body dissipates, the soul will be less lonely.

I don't want to live with heroes, but I need heroes to redeem me;

I'm a coward through and through, I just want to live in peace.

James you continue to defuse bombs, I continue to live safely.

I don't know why there is war, I don't know why human nature is so cruel, I don't know why American soldiers go to Iraqi soil as cannon fodder, and I don't know when the prejudice and hatred among human races will die out.

Can bombs be defused, can hatred in people's hearts be defused?

Alas, if only there was such a bomb disposal unit.

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The Hurt Locker quotes

  • Sergeant JT Sanborn: I'm not ready to die, James.

    Staff Sergeant William James: Well, you're not gonna die out here, bro.

    Sergeant JT Sanborn: Another two inches, shrapnel zings by, slices my throat, I bleed out like a pig in the sand. Nobody'll give a shit. I mean my parents - they care - but they don't count, man. Who else? I don't even have a son.

    Staff Sergeant William James: Well, you're gonna have plenty of time for that, amigo.

    Sergeant JT Sanborn: Naw, man.

    Staff Sergeant William James: You know?

    Sergeant JT Sanborn: I'm done. I want a son. I want a little boy, Will. I mean, how do you do it, you know? Take the risk?

    Staff Sergeant William James: I-I don't know. I mean, I just, uh... I guess I don't think about it.

    Sergeant JT Sanborn: Every time we go out, it's life or death. You roll the dice. You recognize that, don't you?

    Staff Sergeant William James: Yeah-yeah... Yeah, I do, but I don't know why, you know? Yeah...

    Staff Sergeant William James: [sighs] I don't know, JT. You know why, you know... I'm the way I am?

    Sergeant JT Sanborn: No, I don't.

  • Colonel John Cambridge: [waving] So long. Thank you.