The news comes after me to gossip, to interview ended, and perhaps it is better that way. Apparently Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, a journalist and writer of the film, are engaged . Thinking back to their attitude during the interview, in fact, something would have guessed. Mark and Kathryn faced the press together, sitting together on a couch of velvet, both sipping Coca Cola, they look and she often goes to great lengths to involve him in the replies. An emotional element that makes it even more special that a film special is already his. Meanwhile, because The Hurt Locker Bigelow is the first film after six years of absence (the last, K-19: The Widowmaker, a political history and action set in a Russian submarine, dating to 2002). Then it is a very raw and honest film about the war and is shot by a woman director, specializing in action movies, of course, but still a woman. The story is inspired by the experience that Boal has lived as a journalist accompanying the U.S. troops in Iraq in 2004, within the EOD, the special unit designed to disarm explosives on the ground: a team of highly trained bomb technicians performing a job at a very high mortality rate and for which the risk - and, by extension, the entire war - become a sort of drug, a feeling of wanting to extend for as long as possible.
What exactly does the phrase "The hurt locker"?
"literally means" container of pain "," locker "is in fact the cabinet in which the soldiers keep their personal belongings. In the literal sense does not "hurt locker" is the definitive place of pain and is a term that Mark heard him use by soldiers when he was with them in Baghdad. It was a saying among them, to joke, almost. When you were defusing a bomb by saying: "If this explodes, we finish all nell'hurt locker". "
Before the movie screen shows a phrase: "war is a drug," the war is a drug.
"The whole sentence is:" the fury of battle results in a strong and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug. " Today, go and fight in Iraq is a voluntary choice. Unlike Vietnam, the current U.S. military is made up exclusively of volunteers, young people who deliberately chose to leave for the front. Becoming part of a unit special as the one that deals with the disarmament of weapons is a next step yet: the soldiers are tested psycho and intelligence, and only those with certain requirements to be part of the team posssono anti bombs. Their work is more dangerous than ever, and for some the attraction is this: having to deal constantly with the fear and fascination that it exerts. "
In the film many scenes are shot outdoors in the desert, and it seems almost to touch the dust and heat the soldiers who suffer, not to mention the perfect reconstruction of Baghdad.
"We shot almost everything in Jordan, 5 km from the Iraqi border. I wanted to cross it, but there were too many snipers and production I do not have permission. The feeling of authenticity that you describe is exactly what we wanted to achieve and to do that we relied on the photographs that Mark had done when he was there. We wanted that the reconstruction was realistic and accurate because we wanted to put the audience literally in the shoes of the soldiers. As a director, my responsibility is to be as honest as possible in showing the public how the soldiers live there, day after day. "
These soldiers are heroes? She shows the contrasting aspects: firm and fearless when I'm on the battlefield, but unable to choose a box of cereal when they are in civilian clothes.
"My intention was to dismantle the idea of \u200b\u200ba hero as we know from other war movies. Yes, these are people who save other lives, it is true, but the price they pay is very high in terms of normality. "
believe that this war is unlike any other?
"All wars are tragic and unnecessary, and this is no exception."
Until last year all the American films that dealt with the topic of the war in Iraq were punished at the box office, as if the public was not ready yet, as if the wound was still open. Do you think the American public's attitude changed from a few years ago?
"The public curiosity about what is happening in Iraq has always been there, partly because newspapers and television do not talk about enough. Then, of course, in recent times public opinion has changed and now everyone thinks that this war is wrong and that the troops should come home. Even President Bush said. "
The withdrawal of American troops in the near future is a realistic expectation? And if so, who should manage it?
"I've just been to the Democratic convention. When I heard Barack Obama speak I thought, 'This man should be president. " Only he can do it. "
It is difficult for a woman working in Hollywood, especially for someone like her doing action movies?
"Working in Hollywood is hard at all, but I'm stubborn, when a story attracts me and I put myself in the head to realize I do so much to do until I can not. Oh, and never accept no for an answer, maybe that is the secret. "
(Grace, 13 / 10 / 2008)
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