Hurt Locker

Hurt Locker - the budget that shamed Avatar

Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pierce, they have very brief but fatal appearances

“The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”

So Hurt locker won best feature at this year’s Oscars, with a fraction of the Avatar budget and an ex wife of the Avatar maker directing. Did it deserve it?

Well, I always believe that the American psyche is a fickle one. Their collective guilt and continued conflicted presence in the countries they hope to liberate is enough to influence the influenceable Hollywood Foreign Press.

I also believe that less is more and a drama driven script (as opposed to special effects driven one) will always come out on top.

Hurt Locker has great suspense, great dramatic performances, but one gets the feeling that this is a made for American public eyes. Kinda like the war news reels they used to make during WWII to gain support of the American public. CNN, Aljazeera, Sky, BBC, you are tame, America needs sequential timeous neatly packed drama to start making sense of their boys being out there. Hurt Locker tells a story, which also, has no end.

War breeds war.

Hurt Locker deserved to beat Avatar, simply because Star Trek was not in the running for best Oscar flick.

Disclaimer: all references to americans are made with limited actual knowledge of americans, except their dismal showing at the 2010 world cup.