“The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow reveals the addiction and dependence that permeates the modern battlefield.

"The Hurt Locker" synopsis

2004 Iraq War. A US military bomb squad was working to dismantle a bomb planted in downtown Baghdad. However, a terrorist detonates a bomb using mobile phone signals, and the bomb disposal team is killed in the line of duty. Staff Sergeant William James, who has been assigned as a replacement, proceeds with his work with reckless behavior, such as carrying out bomb disposal work without proper safety measures, causing anxiety to the American soldiers on his team.

Index

• The Truth story based on reporting experience in Iraq
• The unpredictability of bomb disposal
• Casting of unknown actors to emphasize reality

The Truth story based on reporting experience in Iraq

Throughout Hollywood's long history, many films in the war movie genre have been produced. Kathryn Bigelow's ``The Hurt Locker'' (2008) is in a class of its own. As a director, ``The Hurt Locker,'' which he completed after a seven-year hiatus since `` K-19 '' (2002), was nominated for nine categories at the 82nd Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original. It won six awards: Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Sound Effects, and Best Sound Recording. It took the awards race by storm that year, beating out James Cameron's (Kathryn Bigelow's ex-husband) Avatar (2009). The director became the first woman in history to win the Academy Award for Best Director, and rose to become one of Hollywood's leading directors in both name and reality.

The Hurt Locker is based on an original screenplay written by screenwriter and journalist Mark Boal. After graduating from Oberlin College, Mark Boal began his career as a full-length nonfiction writer, writing a column for the Village Voice at the young age of 23. He has written about politics, technology, crime, and more, and you can read his articles in national publications. In 2003, he wrote ` ` Death and Dishonor'' for Playboy magazine, based on the true story of a military veteran who goes to find his missing son. 07) was made into a movie.

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``The Hurt Locker'' is based on Ball's experience reporting on the actual situation in Iraq, spending several weeks in a US Army bomb squad and working with US soldiers working in Iraq. Although the characters and story of ``The Hurt Locker'' are fictional, the terrifying reality of Ball's experiences in the dangerous area of ​​Baghdad is clearly depicted in the film. The reality of the depiction is so complete that it could be mistaken for a non-fiction documentary.

This film also depicts one of the costs of war in the 21st century: dependence. ``The Hurt Locker'' is a story of a war addict that vividly depicts a quiet man who is addicted to the horrors of war. Ball says, ``My experience in Iraq left a deep impression on me. When I came back, I thought, ``No one really knows what those soldiers were like and what they were facing.''

The unpredictability of bomb disposal