Shredded On Youtube

Kathryn Bigelow, 57, ex-wife of James Cameron and Mark Boal, independent journalist and writer have published a new opus. It goes by the name of "The Hurt Locker", has already experienced success at festivals in the US and Europe and is generally rather warmly welcomed by critique.

It is a movie about defusing bombs in Irak-e 'Arab. The short plot summary in the international movie database is, Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

Wikipedia tells us that "The Hurt Locker was picked up by distributor Summit Entertainment. The film was released in the United States on June 26, 2009 in New York and Los Angeles. Based on the success of its limited run, the independent film received a more widespread theatrical release on July 24, 2009.

Quote: There's enough bang in there to blow us all to Jesus. If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable.

But our probable favourite quote from which we derived our headline will be the following. We cannont quote correctly yet, 'cause till now we have only read about it in german reviews, for example one in the print edition of Süddeutsche Zeitung and were not able to find the original in a quick search over the web.

In a tight defusing situation the three comrades the film is about see a bad man with a camera look at them from a minaret or so. Sniper Eldrige seems to have commented this like "o no, in a minute we'r gonna be shredded on Youtube.

We feel it is modern and pretty up to date for a film writer and a film directrice to think of such a thing. We also deem it might be nearly real, cause we know that US warships and off-country bases are equipped with internet and US navy and army specialists use the internet as often as they use the telly these days. Why should young Iraqis or Iranis not share their actions and geodata?

There are lots of reviews on the net and the english wikipedia article has got some links to the professional ones.

This movie is, or rather will be, a very smart construction about being very smart and being defensive. We're pretty sure it just leaves out the forwardly offensive part that is there irl, because the larger part of the US population prefers the thought and construct of being defensive over the thought of being in the lead and being responsible. N#We are held, never to forget, what America and the great Britain did and do in the Irak-e 'Arab is defending the freedom of the world.

Still it is to be hoped that the film's got enough bang to blow us all, if not to Jesus, then at least to two hours of passive unlimeted fun. We will go and watch.