PentHouse Films

"The Hurt Locker" by Kathryn Bigelow, continues to add awards. This time it was the National Society of Film Critics awarded the U.S., thereby strengthening its position as a possible candidate for the Oscar nomination.

Is a film that bet unmask the psychological pressures of war, the soldiers whose membership is treated as a disease and not as patriotism. The filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow strives to create diverse situations of tension, never take a political decision on the Iraq war and is this impartiality that makes a movie that glorifies people and not war. This is the movie 'Jarhead' could not be.

Everything happens in a unit of mines and booby traps, monitoring the daily challenges of a miner addicted to disable the risks of (increasingly complex) improvised explosive devices that insurgents constantly grow in the streets of Baghdad, a "surge" in which each bomb neutralized opens the way for a more elaborate and demanding challenge. (There is actually something video-game here in the middle, but reading is a necessarily a posteriori - a film inspired and never got in a game the growing tension that builds Bigelow here with virtuosity.) But another faena that "State War "does explain that the bull is Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, the Balkans, etc.., are different names for the same territory. The "where" loses its relevance. The only ideology is pragmatism. The wars are all the same, there are innocent and guilty, between dead and living one is it going to make it.

Personal comment:

It is the best war movie in many years. It is a trip by impressionist "dark side", an injection of adrenaline directly into the vein, a "walk on the wild side" to quote the song by Lou Reed. Because - unlike the recent wave of American films about Iraq and its aftermath, or much of the movie that was made about Vietnam, for very good some of them are - it's not a film that questions the reasons, motives, psychologies. "The Hurt Locker" apologizes for not looking at things from the front and take the bull by the horns: yes, war is hell (not a few scenes where the shock deaf death just next door slammer) but who is there in the middle is also an addiction, a necessity, a way of being alive.

American critics consider "State of War" movie of the year!