The Hurt Locker: (movie through my lens)

The Hurt Locker: (movie through my lens)
It’s actually too late to review this film and as such winner need not justify but just out of curiosity I happened to view this movie after the academy awards were declared at the lovely Kodak theatre.
It’s a movie about an elite bomb diffusing group which is stationed in Baghdad, Iraq. The movie revolves around how this elite group moves around the deserted streets of Baghdad diffusing bombs (IED-improvise explosive device) and the lives of the troops at such war places.

Applause:
It’s an eye opener in one sense because we all have been reading all kinds of stories about the NATO and the American troops staying there amidst all kinds of adversities. People get to watch a complete view of lives of people as well as the soldiers of a war stricken country and what human lives does cost? Reading in the newspaper or watching a clipping in any news channel does not give a true portrait about the people living in any war ravaged country may it be Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine…Scenes from the movie surely thrill you as if you are watching it live on TV…The director has aptly shown the reality.

Yawn:
For any Oscar winning movie dialogues play a major part and more if it’s a war movie. The dialogues don’t stir you enough and do not back the screenplay and action part of the movie.
Background score of the movie is weak which would have created a profound impact on the scenes. The background score in any movie gives that killer punch to any scene alltogether with apt dialogues because it has the ability to create realistic intensity among the viewers. May be the director wanted to keep it very real but I don’t think so it has helped. (but surely she got an oscar for that)
Enemy at the gates, Saving Private Ryan or behind the enemy lines, all these are Great War movies. The best thing about any war movie is how aptly the emotions are shown not during the action scenes but behind those scenes where i think the director has failed.( butwho cares, she has got an oscar)

O-scar:
Sometimes throughout the movie you get a feel as if you are watching a documentary on Iraq war. Direction of the movie is intense. Screenplay is very apt. Characters have performed within their mould. But film not only includes direction but also the story. Just to commemorate international woman’s day and make history you can’t award a film which may not be the best. Making a low-budget film is also not an excuse because there is another film called The messenger which has been made with half the budget of the former.
I definitely would not give Oscar to The hurt locker. Though Oscar has this peculiarity of awarding films which may not be popular among the cinema goers and standing out in genre but still I found many things which could have been modified.