The Hurt Locker 4K 2008 2160p AMZN WEB-DL

An elite army unit of sappers wages a war in Iraq and ends up in a city where everyone they meet is a potential enemy and shahid, and every object can be a disguised bomb.

The Hurt Locker 4K Review
Sergeant William James arrives at the sapper squad working in Iraq, having defused more than seven hundred mines and, it seems, does not know fear. The film, which bypassed the most successful box-office picture of all time at the bends of the Oscar race. The film that won the first Academy Award for Best Director for a Woman. It is clear that with such a harvest of triumphs, a place in the history of "The Lord of the Storm" is assured.

But I would like to think that he would have found this place without the help of numerous awards. After all, it is made almost flawlessly. Entering the difficult and dangerous territory of the Iraqi conflict, Catherine Bigelow ("Strange Days", "On the Crest of a Wave", "K-19") managed to bypass all the traps that lie in wait for directors of films on hot political topics. There is neither ostentatious patriotism, nor, on the contrary, sugary peacemaking pathos - there are no political statements at all. By focusing the entire film on the level of the gaze of soldiers doing deadly work on a daily basis, Bigelow found that at this level, traditional justifications for war - political, ideological, economic, religious - lose all meaning.

For sappers on a mission there is only an explosive device - and who planted it, what goals was guided by and whether he was right or wrong, no longer plays a role. And this narrow focus is ultimately the most accurate. Speaking about the nature of war, Bigelow remains mesmerized by its mechanics. The job of a sapper is a concentrated tension, and the "The Lord of the Storm" keeps it all two hours, not letting go for a second, twisting his nerves, not allowing him to relax. The combination of the most powerful, knocking down form and deep, non-trivial content is what should be given Oscars in this world.