Avatar the expensives “Fiction Movie” must acknowledge the victory of The Hurt Locker. The film spent U.S. $ 21.4 million from ticket sales worldwide since June 26 released yesterday, according to Box Office Mojo, a researcher based in Sherman Oaks, California.
“The Hurt Locker“, within the story of United States bomber units army in Iraq, The Hurt Locker spent U.S. $ 15 million for construction. The film has defeat “Avatar,” which is a movie with the highest cost of all time, for the best picture category.
While the The Hurt Locker DVD sales were reported sky rocket after the movie won the Academy Awards on March 8, 2010. Many people said that The Avatar indeed superior on the animation and 3D effect but the “story” bring The Hurt Locker to the top of the Oscar.
At least that’s what most people said, and also one of the reason why The Hurt Locker beat Avatar.
Quoted one of the review from Amazon’s customer :
The movie opens with the quote – “the rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug” (a modern paraphrase of Churchill’s older and more famous maxim – “there is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result”)
This is a thriller of a movie about a U.S. Army bomb disposal unit in Iraq and their daily grind in dealing with the IEDs and insurgents there.
This movie does have several stars – but Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pierce, and Evangeline Lilly all have fairly small roles. Blink, and you’ll miss them. Their presence in this movie is more a testament to director/producer Kathryn Bigelow’s status in the entertainment industry than anything else.
Jeremy Renner is Sergeant James, a bomb tech. Unlike his affable predecessor, he is a wild man. He seems not only indifferent to the dangers of his job, he absolutely revels in the dangers. It is the ultimate in thrill seeking behavior, getting that dopamine surge in his brain. Near the end of the movie, Sgt. James gets accused of being an adrenaline junkie, but we know now that the neurochemical at work here is dopamine. Bomb disposal is not just a job for him, but his passion, his addiction, his reason for being in the Army.
Renner’s character ends up like a cross between Elmer Fudd, with his perpetually placid and slightly befuddled gaze, and Bugs Bunny, with his wile and lust for excitement and danger.
His two partners in the unit, Sgt. Sanborn and Specialist Eldridge, who have to cover him and just want to survive their tour of duty, don’t know quite how to deal with his determination to confront danger. One wonders at why Sgt. James puts himself in danger, why he takes the extra risks to defuse a bomb when detonating it would do. The scene that explains it all is when Sgt. James returns home to America one day and we see him doing the mundane chores of life as a civilian, cleaning out the rain gutters, cleaning up the kitchen, shopping with his wife and baby at the grocery store. As he stares at an entire wall full of colorful cereal boxes stacked along a grocery store aisle, a look of utter blankness, boredom, and despair fills his face…..nope, not for him, this dull life as a civilian….
The movie’s storyline is a series of daily missions, almost like a documentary or a TV series, each episode standing alone and yet building upon previous episodes, each one presenting a new danger, a new challenge, another piece of the puzzle that is the war in Iraq.
What makes this movie work is the recreation of Iraq in this movie – it was filmed in Jordan with local Iraqi expatriates. We feel the oppressive tension of the whole country, of not knowing who the bad guys are and where the next bomb or bullet is going to come from. We feel the fear and uncertainty of the American soldiers, caught between their desire to be the good guys and wanting to make nice with the local Iraqis, while constantly needing to remain vigilant and suspicious, never knowing who is a good Iraqi, and who deserves to get shot. We feel the bewilderment and resentment of the local Iraqis, who get pushed around at every turn by the American soldiers.
Unlike so many other recent Iraq war movies, this movie makes no political statements, there is no right or wrong here. These are just men at work, doing a dangerous and dirty job, and these guys are darn good at what they do for their country, whatever the reasons are that they are doing it.
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