Guest Author - Terry L Kosse
Hurt Locker – Best Picture Oscar. For me, this was an extremely difficult movie to watch. My son is a Marine and is currently in Afghanistan. I had to stop the movie several times just so I could take a break to release some of my emotion. This is a sad yet intense movie. I can’t imagine what these men go through on a daily basis. This is about one man fighting to stay alive to return home only to have a normal life, while yet another is not happy at home and wants only to return to ground zero.
I can see why it won best picture, simply by its realism. It raises issues and questions that make us wonder why our Men are over there now.
Here are the mistakes that I found.
Several things I noticed was the time frame of certain items. The movie is taking place in 2004 and you can clearly see things that hadn’t come into existence yet. One is the use of an ipod touch was not until 2007. Another, was someone filming something for YouTube which didn’t start until 2006. One young man was playing Gears of War on an Xbox 360. The Xbox came out in 2005 and Gears of War came out in November 2006.
After James, played by Jeremy Renner, drops off Sandborn, played by Anthony Mackie, at the barracks he sits down at a table and has a drink. After taking a drink he then places the bottle on the table. If you watch closely the bottle goes from being on the table to being on the floor, to being back on the table.
In the beginning of the movie, you see Sergeant Matt Thompson, played by Guy Pearce, walking on the inside of a set of train tracks going towards a bomb. When the camera switches to the inside of his helmet you can see the train tracks off to the side. When the camera goes back to normal he is inside the tracks again.
In some of the scenes the sun seems to switch places from north to south, east and then west. It also goes from a low sun to the middle of the day, and so on, changing the time of day that each scene was shot even though the time frame in the movie did not.
Mistakes aside, it is a good movie. To be honest, I will never see myself watching this movie again, at least not while my son is gone. For those of you with loved ones over there it might prove to be difficult also. If it is war movies you like or maybe just on the edge of your seat this might prove to be worth seeing.
