Hurt Locker

Rating: 1/10 (30 July 2010)

Males and females at IMDb both rate this film equally at 7.8 (but as usual it's 10 to 1, male raters to female). Then the other interesting demographic is males and females under 18, which is also skewered way toward males to females by 8 to 1, but both of these gave the film the highest approval rating at 8.3 of any demographic. And therein lies my objection to this film and especially to the fact that this film even was nominated, let alone won, best picture from gollywood. The academy, the industry, the military industrial complex all helped honor this film with the "supposed" highest award.
I was suspicious from the very beginning of Hurt Locker and as it went on, and on and on without any cinematic competence I began to compare it with "Apocalypse Now" which did NOT win best film, best director, best supporting actor , best writing, best editing, best art directing, but managed 2 awards for sound and cinematography. Hurt Locker won 6 of the 9 awards for which it was nominated. I am saddened here that the first AAward given to a female director is given to a film which I believe to be a most unfeminine film. Women have mourned for centuries the loss of their children and husbands to war, yet we in the midst of two of our nation's longest war, Ms. Bigelow is put to the task of enticing under 18's to this violence as something they might want to take part in so they can, "Be all they can be" as the film informs them more than once.
We were and are in the midst of a severe financial crisis in which "I'm lucky to have a job" is a phrase I hear often. These sub 18's are facing an uncertain future. But the a Huge growth industry, which has continued for decades now, in this nation, is the Military. The military will not go unfunded in this, the most violent society in the world.
I don't believe that is any conspiracy here. But the message sent by this film is "war is romantic." I'm disgusted in the nation in which I live.