Violence, It's Nice!

Title: Hurt Locker
Dir: Kathryn Bigelow
Written By: Mark Boal
Cast: Jeremy Renner; Anthony Mackie; Brian Geraghty; Christian Camargo

I think Violence is as natural as 12-year old boy’s crush on his lunch lady or Matron, it’s strange, disturbing, but frighteningly familiar. With all the repression chucked at us through the wonderful people at Liberal Media and Dickheads and Co. It makes sense that every once in a while you just want to, you know, kill something.
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal fully understand this and deliver this stream of thinking in the orgasmic “Hurt Locker”. The narrative follows the lives of three marines’ station in Iraq part of a EOD (United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal) team. The film travels with them along the harsh, dry, violent caking Iraq War and their attempts to try diffuse as many bombs, tempers and insurgents as possible. There’s not much to ruin in this film as the story is simplistic but fucking Horrifically familiar.
The best thing about “Hurt Locker” is the fact that it doesn’t contextualise the external war but rather the internal war instead. Fighting against the rising tide of insecurity, danger and all out lust for violence the team of Sanborn, James and Eldridge venture into the most vicious terrain on earth to fight an invisible enemy hell-bent on destroying them and everything around them.
Bigelow and Co. Go to town in this flick, shot primarily on Super 16mm cameras the celluloid gives you that same feeling of dryness, despair and fear that only someone with super-parched lips or living in Iraq could experience. By using an intricate series of tight close ups, wobbling like the teams chance of survival, Bigelow and Ackroyd get to the heart of violence which like the desert tornadoes furiously sculpt the Jordanian terrain like the men as inherently violent. It’s not pretty, but it’s as gritty as F*** and to top that there’s very little porn.
Porn in the sense that Bigelow rarely indulges in her creative talents by showing us just how good she is as a director, it’s film how it should be, simple, beautiful and outright provocative.
I give it 8 HOERS!
So Young.