THE HURT LOCKER
Genre: Action
Producer: Nicholas Cartier, Kathryn Bigelow
Production: Summit Entertainment
Cast & Crew
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pierce, Anthony Mackie
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Boal
Finally came the big day, or rather the big Oscar night 2010, held as always at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. This time, most of the predictions came true, except that the Avatar would wipe. The Hurt Locker was the winner of the night, setting the first woman to win Best Director. And for Latino pride, Argentina took the statuette for Best Foreign Film The secret of his eyes, the second Oscar in the history of the South American country.
Bingelow his own record as the first female director in the Oscar-winning 82-year history of the Academy Awards. “This is the most precious moment in my life,” he said, when commenting on the Oscar in his hand. “It is my honor to have the nomination in a row with the best people who have inspired me for decades.”
Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, the film shows the work of a U.S. brigade of deactivation of explosives deployed in Iraq. At the same time, Bigelow depicts, in detail, the human side of soldiers, their feelings and reactions.
From the description of an American journalist, the film, which competes for the Golden Lion for best film, part of a premise: the excitement of battle is a deadly weapon, because war is a drug.
Set in the Iraq war, is about an elite bomb disposal unit that is thrown into a chaotic city where everyone can be a potential enemy and every object can be a bomb.
