Review of The Hurt Locker (2008) by Caleb L — 27 Nov 2014

"The Hurt Locker" is a movie from 2009.

It was nominated for the 82nd Academy Award and won in six different categories.

Katheryn Bigelow, who was the supervisior of this movie, won the academy Directing Award.

She has made splendid movies in various fields such as action or horror, and she is a first woman to ever win an Academy award for directing.

"Hurt Locker", the title of this movie, is U. S. Military slang.

It means "an extreme zone of the pain".

"The war is a drug".

This sentence, spoken in the beginning of the movie, describes the life of James who is the main character.

James goes to the battle front as a member of Special Forces and of the U. S. Military bomb squad.

He goes to there and handles a very dangerous mission and returns home where his wife and child live.

However, he does not calm down even when he is in the house.

The war is a drug for him.

It is essential for him and is his life itself.

And, war still existed somewhere in the world.

The person obsessed with war like James will continue existing as long as there is war.

According to a third party, you may think all matters about war nonsensically.

However, it is fact that there are the people who find a way of life and continue to chase it, just like he does.

For them, the battle front is their HOME.

If person like James loses his HOME, what would happen?

This movie has a big concept for us to think about - the existence of war.