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Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2010)

Every film about a war is very tricky thing, there are always a lot of subtexts and provoking moments, when the director of the movie is originally from one of the country which engaging in war it's always difficult for him to stay neutral due to patriotic feelings. Director who makes film about war should aware that he takes enormous responsibility for what he creates especially when the main aim consists from showing senseless of the war in general.
So let's talk about what we got in ''The Hurt Locker'', well if u seen Bosnian movie of Danis Tanovic ''No Man's Land'' u certainly beheld that every things related with EOD showing heresy of the war more detailed, because you can create a lot of moments where people still alive but it's already impossible to save their lives, they are just walking corpses. Same idea was implemented in Hurt Locker for only one exception, Tanovic reached his ultimate objection to stay neutral and show conflict from both sides, Kathryn Bigelow despite here hard endeavors didn't reach this goal, Americans showed here like a good guys with holy mission and Iraq people just a bunch of barbarians without any possibility to survive without outside aid. Only small boy who peddled movies had something humane in his behavior. Yet I admire the way Bigelow imaged soldiers, no cheap patriotic phrases, completely apolitical attitude just simple people who already got used to war without opinion that they fight for something important for their country.Main character cannot live without a war and fatalistic horror already, he struts through the war and always plays Russian roulette but at least aware that it's all ridiculous stuff.
The only one big disadvantage of the story is literally eloquent dialogs of the soldiers, I expected more slang, swearing and harsh phrases like all military people always use, I don't want to say that it's really necessary but it adds mood and atmosphere. I guess all vets will behold a lot of inaccurate moments in every war movie and I also beheld many unrealistic things here. But I'm not a military servant, I'm civilian like most of viewers and we don't need exact elements of all military equipment. No matter what uniform using in fact, it's a trivial in such case and no need to store on them. General flash must be focused on human being of people who involved in the war. The Hurt Locker doesn't reflect allegory of irrelevance of the war yet it has humanity agenda which would catch your mind and makes you ponder about cruelty without any sense.