Hell yeah! Director Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to take home an Oscar for Best Picture for the breathlessly intense The Hurt Locker. If you haven’t, you need to see this movie. I was lucky enough to see it at the Savannah Film Festival a few months after its national release–so I got to see it on a big screen, and for free. The fact that I saw Michael Cera’s “Youth In Revolt” promptly afterwards curtailed the feeling in your gut that this film will give you. But you need to see it.
Any female film student will tell you it’s not easy, that you have to work extra-hard to prove yourself among the boy’s club of moviemaking. But that’s changing, despite rumors that Bigelow’s ex-husband, James Cameron, ghost-wrote the action scenes. To quote a review discussing why “Hurt Locker” was a deserving winner, around the Golden Globes:
“Here’s the thing, though: Kathryn Bigelow got me to feel a much greater amount of tension and involvement with scenes of a guy moving some wires around in a box. And I saw it in two dimensions. I mean, I can’t even imagine what would have happened if I saw The Hurt Locker in IMAX – or, God forbid, in IMAX 3-D, if they had ever made it in that format. I probably would have passed out.”
Nail on the head. Incredible movie, wonderful achievement.
Now back to being killed softly by finals.
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