Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker

"The Hurt Locker" doesn't deserve all those Oscars.

Oh well, it's true that the Oscar has lost that charm, but especially that meaning, that it once had. It's really true that the new millennium has reset all values and destroyed and emptied all terms of their meaning, but here one would expect a masterpiece, starting with such premises.

I saw a film, neither superior nor inferior to a "Black Hawk Down" (which for me remains the best "Modern Warfare" on film). The plot is America VS Iraq, obviously abroad, where bombs away from home are heavier.

Noteworthy for me is the scene where there's a challenge in the desert between the two Americans (snipers for the occasion) and the two Iraqis (snipers and nothing else) in the desert: obviously won by the former. 

In my opinion, it's a film that has nothing to say, the clichés are always the same, with the usual dear dose of goodism characteristic of an "Americana." It's like going to the bar in the square and asking for "the usual," indeed.

The direction tells me nothing, the same goes for the actors, they don't convey that right pathos to me, but after all, what more could one ask for. Rather, I would like to know by what criteria the Oscars are awarded.

The genre is at its end anyway; difficult to expect another Apocalisse...