{"id":7101,"date":"2010-02-23T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T05:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:45:08","slug":"the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-2009-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=7101","title":{"rendered":"The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) 2009 US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=813\">Ben Williams<\/a> at the Santa Barbara International film festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7100\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The-Hurt-Locker-movie-image-3-325x183.jpg\" alt=\"The Hurt Locker movie image (3)\" width=\"325\" height=\"183\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The-Hurt-Locker-movie-image-3-325x183.jpg 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The-Hurt-Locker-movie-image-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>365 days of hard jobs, violence and constant vigilance in the heat of war, can do many things to man. \u00a0For many &#8220;The rush of battle is often potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.&#8221; (Chris Hedges) \u00a0And for Staff Seargant William James (Jeremy Renner) war is just about the only thing he cares about.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurt locker is a story from the soldiers point of view of the Iraq war. \u00a0It shows us the story of Staff Sergeant William James who comes to Iraq to replace Staff Sergeant Thompson who is killed in a bomb explosion. \u00a0However the other team members: Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) and Sergeant JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie), consider James&#8217;s attitude to be reckless and and selfish; after they disarm a car bomb and James is constantly ignoring orders and disobeying protocall.<\/p>\n<p>The one film technique that Bigelow used in this film that really impressed me was the camera angles and shots. \u00a0The shots were so sharp, immediate, and raw. \u00a0It was as if Bigelow was using these shots to throw the audience into the center of the film. \u00a0Make us feel the fear and adrenaline of the soldiers in the head of battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Ben Williams at the Santa Barbara International film festival. 365 days of hard jobs, violence and constant vigilance in the heat of war, can do many things to man. \u00a0For many &#8220;The rush of battle is often potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.&#8221; (Chris Hedges) \u00a0And for Staff Seargant William [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}