The Hurt Locker

[Karga]

saw it last week. the movie is showing the war from the USA point of view. it's nonsense ofc. But the audience liked that idea, especially hollywood!
They like to see their troops saving lives, sacrificing themselves, defusing bombs.
The audience of USA needed to believe that shit. Because there is too much evidence, that USA unleashed hell in iraq. 1million casualties since the war broke out.
When there is no explanation for the sin, movies help you out. They help you how to explain it to your children. They help you to manipulate the truth.
And that is the way to the shiny OSCAR ! 
  But Cinematically the movie was OK! Should be watched
6/10

[Fuzion]

That movie was not that much of a propaganda film as alot of other U.S military movies are. I have seen propaganda movies, and this isn't one of them.

I liked the documentary feel to it, but the concept of defusing one bomb after the other kinda got boring after a while. Though I am glad it wasn't in the form of other Hollywood movies.

It was a nice watch, nothing special though.

[Daekesh]

I have seen propaganda movies, and this isn't one of them.

Could you tell by the pixels?

[Karga]

it's absolutely propaganda. But yes, unlike the national and Strict ones at 2nd world war, this one keeps it slight and a little hidden.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_hurt_locker_as_propaganda

[Fuzion]

Well you said it yourself, World War II movies are alot more extreme. And pretty much any movie about Vietnam.

I can't really name them right now, but any high budget hollywood movie about the u.s army is enough evidence.

Myabe I was too bored of the movie itself to see the propaganda in it, but still... it's not that extreme.

[Karga]

yeah, the extreme point here is  "the movie won 6 oscars" 

[Goza]

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_hurt_locker_as_propaganda

I don't get the author of that article. IMO total bullcrap.

"For all the graphic violence, bloody explosions and, literally, human butchery that is shown in the film, The Hurt Locker is one of the most effective recruiting vehicles for the U.S. Army that I have seen."

The soldiers are shown doing a ridiculous futile job. I'm not sure to whom this would seem diserable. Maybe the stupid "lol bombs, have you seen that explosion? Fuck yeah!" crowd. I already mentioned the dumb ending in my previous post. Still, that doesn't make this a propaganda movie IMO.