The Hurt Locker Themes

The Hurt Locker is set in post-invasion Iraq, so no surprise: war is a big theme here. Unlike in other films and books about war that you may have come across, there's not a lot of moralizing or ag...

War is scary, folks.Shocker. We know.No one seems to have told this to Will in The Hurt Locker, though. It seems like our protagonist doesn't really experience fear—though his fellow EODers Eldri...

With war comes death—everyone knows that. The thing that's unique and horrifying about death in The Hurt Locker, though, is the fact that the people dealing with explosives don't just die. Nopeâ€...

In The Hurt Locker, we pretty much see the Iraq War through the eyes of the EOD team. We see what they see, hear what they hear, know what they know...you get the picture. Of course, these guys are...