The Hurt Locker

The Aching Locker is a 2008 American war film. It follows a United States Army Atomic Ordnance Disposal (EOD) aggregation during the Iraq War.

The blur was directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The cine was accounting by Mark Boal, a freelance biographer who was anchored as a announcer with a bomb squad. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty as associates of a U.S. Army EOD assemblage in Iraq and follows their bout calm as they argue with defusing bombs, the blackmail of insurgency, and the astriction that develops amid them.[3][4] The blur was attempt in Jordan, aural afar of the Iraq border.

It was aboriginal appear theatrically in Italy in 2008, aback it premiered at the Venice Blur Festival. After actuality apparent at the Toronto International Blur Festival in North America, it was best up for administration in the United States by Summit Entertainment.[5] It was appear in the United States on June 26, 2009, in New York and Los Angeles. Based on the success of its bound run, the absolute blur accustomed a added boundless affected absolution in the United States on July 24, 2009. Because this 2008 blur was not originally appear in the U.S. (at atomic in an Oscar-qualifying run in L.A.) until 2009, it was acceptable for the afterward year's Oscars.

The Aching Locker was one of the best acclaimed films of 2009, earning awards and ceremoniousness from abundant organizations, festivals and groups. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture and Best Administrator for Kathryn Bigelow, who became the aboriginal woman to win the award.[6] The blur additionally swept the 2010 BAFTA Awards, acceptable best film, director, aboriginal screenplay, editing, cinematography and sound.

The appellation is argot for actuality afflicted in an explosion, as in "they beatific him to the aching locker".[7] or for "a abode of ultimate pain."[8] It dates aback to the Vietnam War, area it was one of several phrases acceptation "in agitation or at a disadvantage; in bad shape."[9]

The Aching Locker opens with a citation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a acknowledged 2002 book by New York Times war contributor and announcer Chris Hedges: "The blitz of activity is a almighty and generally baleful addiction, for war is a drug."[10][11]

During the aboriginal stages of the post-invasion aeon in Iraq in 2004,[12][13] Sergeant Aboriginal Class William James, a activity activated veteran, becomes the aggregation baton of a U.S. Army Atomic Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit, replacing Staff Sergeant Thompson, who was dead by a remote-detonated 155mm improvised atomic accessory (IED) in Baghdad. He joins Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge, whose jobs are to acquaint with their aggregation baton via radio central his bombsuit, and accommodate him with burglarize awning while he examines IEDs. During their missions of convincing IEDs and agreeable insurgents together, James's beatnik methods advance Sanborn and Eldridge to accede him reckless. Tensions arise amid James and the added two aggregation members. During a arrest on a barn that contains a ample bulk of explosives, James discovers the burst anatomy of a adolescent boy. He has been carved up and buried with an unexploded bomb. James is upset, as he believes the boy to be "Beckham," a adolescent Iraqi affairs DVDs whom he had befriended.

In the after-effects of a ample car bomb, James leads the EOD aggregation to attending for the perpetrators amid the alleys of a village. After they abstracted and try to shoot the insurgents, Eldridge is captured. The added two clue bottomward and annihilate two insurgents who detonated the bomb and who are boring Eldridge. He was accidentally attempt in the leg during the action. He is airlifted to a hospital in Germany to accept anaplasty to adjustment his burst leg. Eldridge blames James for his injury, apropos to Sanborn's advancement that the mission, which James had ordered, would accept been bigger ill-fitted for an infantry platoon.

The abutting morning, James is approached by Beckham. The adolescent boy tries to antipodal with James, who walks by after adage a word. After James fails to abolish and conciliate a time-bomb beggared to an Iraqi civilian's chest because he ran out of time, the Iraqi dies in the explosion. Sanborn after becomes affecting and confesses to James that he can no best cope with the burden of actuality in EOD. He looks advanced to assuredly abrogation Iraq and starting a family.

James allotment home to his wife and child, and is apparent agilely assuming accepted tasks of noncombatant life. One night he speaks to his baby son, cogent him that there is alone "one thing" that he knows he loves. He is abutting apparent aback in Iraq, accessible to serve addition year as allotment of an EOD aggregation with Delta Company.

Cast

* Jeremy Renner as Sergeant Aboriginal Class William James. SFC James is the baton of the squad. He is a U.S. Army Ranger. He is the best accomplished of the band accepting served in the War in Afghanistan. Unlike his adolescent soldiers, SFC James wears anachronous M81 Woodland buried equipment. Although he is a acceptable baton and courageous, James is at times reckless.

* Anthony Mackie as Sergeant JT Sanborn. SGT Sanborn is the one of the associates of the squad. He is a acceptable soldier and actual by the book. Sanborn is frequently analytical of SFC James commenting on his recklessness. Towards the end of Bravo's circling Sanborn confesses he's not accessible to die and wants to alpha a family.

* Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge. SPC Eldridge is the youngest affiliate of the squad. Although he's boxy he does ache brainy anguish. He believes he is amenable for the afterlife of his aboriginal band leader, SSG Thompson, accepting not accursed at the anarchical responsible. Eldridge seeks admonition in LTC Cambridge, the abject psychiatrist.

* Christian Camargo as Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge. LTC Cambridge is the arch analyst at Camp Victory. He helps SPC Eldridge balance from the afterlife of SSG Thompson, although he sometimes seems absent to the soldiers' pressures. Cambridge is a Yale alum and originally from New York.

* David Morse as Colonel Reed. The administrator of the US soldiers at the U.N. building; he is absorbed by the EOD band and questions SFC James about his job.

* Evangeline Lilly as Connie James. SFC James' wife who he talks to over the phone, Connie stays at home watching their son. Despite what he initially says, James loves her but feels added adequate in a warzone. Aback he goes home, James discusses how there is a charge for added bomb defusers in Iraq.

* Christopher Sayegh as Beckham. Beckham is a 12-year-old Iraqi boy who sells DVDs and assorted cyberbanking items alfresco the base. Aback James discovers a boy's anatomy buried with a bomb, he believes it is Beckham's.