I watched this really interesting movie yesterday called "The Hurt Locker" directed by Kathryn Bigelow. It won the best movie and best director award at the Oscars this year - which was deserved - but I can't really give much of an opinion cuz I haven't seen all the other films. I didn't like Avatar though, so I'm glad she won instead of her husband.
"The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug." - by Chris Hedges is the quote that the movie starts off with - and it's quite apt.
"War is a drug". The adrenalin rush getting you in the end.
Well, at least for one character; cuz the others are just dying to get out of the hot desert that they've been forced to fight in.
I watched this movie without my husband - he was busy and I was bored. So I decided, hey what the heck - lemme watch it. And I'm glad I did. I liked the film - I thought it was well shot and initially I thought it would be boring because there didn't appear to be any single reference to any female character (I'm doing a course of gender and feminism and I am acutely aware of these things now). One scene that stayed in my mind was one of a bullet falling in slow motion from a gun - for some reason that just seemed awesome.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~Ernest Hemingway
Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato
This was also said in the film "Brothers". This too was based on war in Iraq.
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