‘Hurt Locker’ is not the Best Movie

   Don’t get me wrong; I do believe that Kathryn Bigelow was the best director. She did the most with what she was given… a weak script and average actors. My problem with this movie is greater the Bigelow, her actors, the script… It’s more about what this movie real stands for, atonement for the botched insanity that is Iraq. In a way by giving this movie top honors the American people can all dump the guilt they feel over being the country that has a reputation for sticking it’s nose in other peoples business. This nation of war mongering patriots can now empathize with the characters struggles in this film and it gives them a avenue for the collective guilt that they as a nation must feel for crushing another in the name of freedom. I hate this film… yes I ‘hate’ this film. I respect with all my soul any man, woman or child that has given their life for the betterment of our world. The soldiers on the ground ever day in Iraq are only there because an American government wanted to finish what they started… The war in Iraq is a war of position and oppression not liberation. Again the soldier is the victim of circumstance…