Common Sense
Posted on: April 2, 2010
The Stone Breakers, by Gustave Courbet. 1849
There is a scene in “The Hurt Locker” near the end that made me think of something that was probably not intended by the director at all, though it may have been. As for the movie itself, I thought it was good, but not nearly as good as the Academy did. I especially disliked the very last scene, which struck me as a return to old style Hollywood glorification of war, which was jolting, given that most of the movie prior to that had managed to avoid those cliches. Watching “The Hurt Locker” up to that point pretty much gave us a visual representation of the total madness and absurdity of war, especially of the war in Iraq.…
[More...]
