Maybe “The Hurt Locker” Isn’t Just A Left-Wing, Anti-Soldier Diatribe
My editor at the American Issues Project, Catherine Favazza, has a review of HBO’s The Hurt Locker in today’s Washington Examiner. I’ve read a couple reviews of the movie (most notably here) that have lambasted it for being yet another left-wing diatribe about the evil warmongers that sent our innocent lambs to Iraq where they turned into inhuman monsters.
Catherine sees it a bit differently. Read her take on the movie and let me know what you think. It takes quite a bit for me to go to a theater and see a movie and I’m very twitchy about movies that cast our soldiers in a bad light (which this one obviously does). On the other hand, I’ve known guys who did EOD work and, quite honestly, their work really could use a lot more visibility than it has gotten. Their job is nasty and dangerous and they get are very susceptible to being eaten up by the stresses of the job which are insanely high (and compounded by the already high stress of being a soldier). I probably wouldn’t see the movie myself, but Catherine gives me a good reason to watch it when it comes out on DVD, which I wasn’t inclined to do before I read her piece.
Other Posts of Interest:
- $500,000 Bucks for the Troops? How About a Cool Million!
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (or, “Badgers? We don’t need no steenking…wait. Yes. Yes, we actually do need a steenking badger.”)
- Star Trek, by the Numbers.
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