tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post3847960066007759433..comments2024-03-18T02:14:06.798-07:00Comments on Dar Kush: "Hurt Locker" and "Where The Wild Things Are" (2009)Steven Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13630529492355131777noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-24632855966285186012024-03-12T03:57:10.066-07:002024-03-12T03:57:10.066-07:00nike dunks
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I'd been wa...I absolutely admired <i>Hurt Locker</i>.<br /><br />I'd been waiting for years to see Hollywood, or anybody, make a movie about American soldiers in Iraq that merely treated them as the people that I know they generally are: not "plaster saints" (as Kipling put it), not invincible supermen, not Michael Moore-ish villains, but just <i>people</i> -- ordinary people given heroic jobs and stepping up to them, under moral conditions that were neither simple good-vs.-evil nor purely nihilistic.<br /><br />Given just how many (totally money-losing) movies Hollywood made that were strongly anti-U.S. army and anti-war, I don't buy the idea that Hollywood's politically neutral or close to it. Hollywood's got an empirically proven willingness to burn up money on repeated bombs of movies, as long as they follow a hard-left view of the Iraq war. But a single movie like <i>Hurt Locker</i> went a long, long way to wash the bad taste out of my mouth.<br /><br />(Another movie I liked, for quite similar reasons: <i>The Kingdom</i>.)<br /><br /><br />--Erich SchwarzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-75243247623391840142009-10-26T09:24:58.770-07:002009-10-26T09:24:58.770-07:00"...most female directors seem to leave the c..."...most female directors seem to leave the camera in one place, and choreograph the action around it."<br /><br />Curious, since female film pioneer Leni Riefenstahl is frequently credited with originating moving camera techniques, innovations she first employed in Nazi Propaganda films such as Triumph of the Will.Ethiopian_Infidelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03332794812978904247noreply@blogger.com