Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Year: 2008 (2010 best picture, first best director to be won by a woman director)
Writer: Mark Boal
Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd
Editors: Mark Murawski, Chris Innis
"Documentary style" photography, hand-held, constantly making little zooms in and out, drives me nuts in the first 30 minutes, and I'm not sure if I just get used to it and stop thinking about it, or if the style was just the right choice, because while I hate the little zoom adjustments and unnecessarily shaky hand-held bits, I ended up not being distracted by it. But maybe its just that the cameraman steadied his hand after the first 30 minutes.
Does a good job of just focusing on the difficulty of the job of being a bomb squad, and following 3 types of characters: the maverick, the by the book guy, and the younger guy trying to figure out if the way to survive the war is to be like the maverick or the by the book guy.
Very well made movie, but I didn't find it to be a great film.
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