The Hurt Locker / Bradley Davis



The Hurt Locker/2008

Kathryn Bigelow/USA/November 27,1951

Budget- $15,000,000

Gross-$49,230,772 (Worldwide) (5 July 2012)

Synopsis-An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat.

Narrative and Visual Keywords-Bomb, Army, death, Dangerous job, Tour of duty Explosive, Iraq


Camera/lighting/editing technique .Close up to show the important times.


Historical Relevance/ Recognition - The Iraq War.

Notable Collaboration Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, Davis Morse

Random fact- During filming, three, four or more hand-held super 16mm cameras were used to film scenes in documentary style. Nearly two hundred hours of footage was shot at an eye-popping 100:1 shooting ratio

P.O.V. We can see that James most certainly doesn’t like him, and where this pushes James becomes a surprisingly apt metaphor for the American invasion of Iraq . Locker is mostly apolitical in its depiction of modern urban warfare, where every civilian is a potential enemy and every street corner a potential firefight.

 Morality The morality of this film is centralized around the idea of the cost of a human life. The main characters are Army soldiers trained to survive and to protect others