With all its praise, this seemed like one I should watch while my "backlog-catchup" phase lasts. While okay as a movie, with even a moderately atmospheric sniper sequence, I am - again - appalled by the subtext.
I had this when I watched Platoon, which I hated, the feeling of watching a pro-war film. Both say in effect, that War is a place men need. To be molded in the case of Platoon or just to feel alive. Even if I can agree with that on some level, reducing the millions upon millions of deaths American wars of aggression have caused to mere props in a Bildungsroman seems utterly disdainful to me.
Also, why doesn't anyone think one second about the societies that caused these men to turn out that way? Or is the scene in the big box mart at the end of Hurt Locker really a critique of consumerism and I just don't get it?
Winterherz
vor 15 Jahren
