pounded into the carpet...

Rating: 9/10 (18 August 2009)

caught the first matinée of : the hurt locker
as a maker, an artist, a writer, a poet, a musician
the easiest part is starting : the hard part is carrying the work : rare as hens teeth is ending it... right
the hurt locker was as good as it gets : everything top to bottom
script : production : direction : camera : actors : editing
everything was dialed in and... perfect
except for the **cking ending : damn it...
it was in the directors hands : like all people who do not know where the ending is : she went to far
it was wrapped with a nice satin ribbon and Hollywood bow tie : *hit
the end is the 4rd scene from the end : grocery shopping
camera pans down the cereal isle one way : pans the other : cut to black : end of film
see : i called it a film, not a movie : but, it got movie-ized
the superb lines from the 3rd to last scene:
sergeant james talking to his baby boy (paraphrased) "As you get older, the things you love fall away. Maybe there's just 2 left, for me, it's one."
those lines don't have to be lost and shouldn't
move those lines earlier : stage a mano e mano scene between Sargent James and Spec JT Sandborn
THEN, later, the 4th scene before the end when JT says "Nobody cares about me. I want a son."
the power of that moment would go off the charts
plus, you'd have your superior: robotic : over-saturated : vacant : empty : material world moment in the grocery isle
cut to black : end of film
a 10 rating