Yeah. What a loser. I finally caught up with The Hurt Locker. A week after the Oscar. Blah blah blah. What can I say? I'm poor right now. And I tried real hard to watch it the night before the Oscars. No luck. But now I can say I saw the Best Picture of the year.I loved it. The bomb-diffusing scenes, though almost repetitious, were very suspenseful. That repetition is intentional in the storytelling though, showing how these soldiers are faced with this drama day after day after day after day.
Jeremy Renner is really solid and deserves the attention he's receiving. This role reminds me of Colin Farrell's breakthrough role in Tigerland. The opening shot of the film is a POV shot of a bomb-diffusing robot and that perfectly describes Renner's character.
I noticed that the soldiers all end up inheriting/taking things from the dead around them. From the dead soldiers they take their juiceboxes, artillery, Renner's character takes the dead soldier's job, they take a bomb out of a dead child. I'm still working out what I think this means. If anyone has any ideas, comment away.
The ending was very solid as well. The shots back at home cleaning the gutters, at the grocery store shopping for cereal, the excitement wasn't there for the soldier. I was pissed that 60 Minutes' Bigelow Profile spoiled the ending/suspense for me while I was watching the piece. But when watching the movie, I forgot all about the ending while engaged in the suspenseful bomb diffusion set pieces. They are that well put together.
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