One can't mistake the irony of Kathryn Bigelow winning best director for The Hurt Locker over ex-husband (1991) James Cameron's Avatar. After writing a movie review and portrait of Cameron's TED talk, I am surprised that Cameron was upstaged by a low budget, controversial film. Avatar won 3 Oscars and The Hurt Locker 6.
Johanna Schneller writes a wonderful portrait of Bigelow's work including this quote about her artistic endeavours.
“My goal is to make material as accessible as possible, but with a conscience. So I include some genre elements, which gives you a comfort level, and then I add other dimensions, which you don’t see coming, to make you walk out of the theatre and think. But it can’t be pedagogical. You have to keep the material subversive, so it doesn’t reveal itself. I’ll crawl through fire for that.”
I have a feeling that The Hurt Locker is on the play list for a lot of people including me. Has anyone seen the movie?
