{"id":12565,"date":"2010-05-18T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T08:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12565"},"modified":"2010-05-18T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T08:35:29","slug":"the-hurt-locker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/18\/the-hurt-locker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hurt Locker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The other day I went to see “The Hurt Locker<\/a>“. \u00a0There was plenty of hype around this movie – 6 Oscars, 73 other award wins, and 47 nominations for more awards. \u00a0Not to mention that the director is Kathryn Bigelow, who is, among other things, an ex-wife of James Cameron. \u00a0(And as we know, in many cases, you are who you are married to, and if so, it’s extremely helpful in this case).<\/p>\n

Anyways. \u00a0Obviously, with all that noise, I’ve heard quite a bit about the film, and I saw the trailer, and I had a slight idea on what it was and how it was. \u00a0I went prepared. Or so I thought…<\/p>\n

The film turned out to be totally different from what I was expecting. \u00a0Actually, I think it turned out totally different from what anybody were expecting. \u00a0And that’s a good thing. \u00a0Surprise! \u00a0Somehow this film is very different from pretty much everything. \u00a0It has action, but it’s not an action. \u00a0It has drama, but it’s not a drama. \u00a0It’s supposedly has documentary, but it’s not documentary. \u00a0The storyline is very vague and doesn’t seem to stand out or lead anywhere, but on the other hand the film is rather long and I didn’t get tired of it at all. It’s very natural.<\/p>\n

The way it works, I guess, is that this film is using atmosphere to tell the story, rather than dialogs, powerful music, and impressive shots. \u00a0As I said, at times you don’t really know where it goes and if it goes anywhere at all. \u00a0But yet somehow it all makes sense. \u00a0Also, one other thing that I really enjoyed, and which I thought was a cornerstone of this film is simplicity. \u00a0The whole situation in Iraq is not simple. \u00a0There are many sides to it and many points of views. \u00a0 But this film drops down to a very simplistic view of the whole picture from the eyes of a few American soldiers. \u00a0 There is no propaganda, there are no high-flying ideas. \u00a0It’s just that simple – a few guys at war. \u00a0 It’s not about why they are there. \u00a0It’s about them actually being there.<\/p>\n

The film is not very entertaining, even though it has a few hilarious bits and quite a few action sequences. \u00a0It’s simple, and yet deep. \u00a0It doesn’t force ideas upon thee, but it does make you think. \u00a0And as I said, it’s different from most films I’ve seen, and yet very similar somehow.<\/p>\n

Overall, I’ll give it a 4 out of 5, and I would highly recommend it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

The other day I went to see “The Hurt Locker“. \u00a0There was plenty of hype around this movie – 6 Oscars, 73 other award wins, and 47 nominations for more awards. \u00a0Not to mention that the director is Kathryn Bigelow, who is, among other things, an ex-wife of James Cameron. \u00a0(And as we know, in … Continue reading The Hurt Locker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1707,1],"tags":[1723,1936,2345,1967,2344,2343,2342,2320],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-stars","category-general","tag-anthony-mackie","tag-brian-geraghty","tag-christian-camargo","tag-david-morse","tag-guy-pearce","tag-jeremy-renner","tag-kathryn-bigelow","tag-ralph-fiennes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9796,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/31\/deuce-bigalow-european-gigolo\/","url_meta":{"origin":12565,"position":0},"title":"Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 31, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I miss movies. 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