This HURT LOCKER IS NO GREAT OSCAR MATERIAL

Hollywood has always stuck onto some tried and tested themes just as with our Good Ol Bollywood that include Saving America and the ROW, Biographical Sketches and a jolly good romcom along the way if time permits the saviours of the world to experience the pleasures of life. Given that Americans have been rather depressed since the recent recession leading to job losses and the like while the leaders were busy negotiating and ruling the territories of Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, there is high probability that any film released during this period that echoes the sentiments of 'poor' Americans would very well make it to the Oscars.Thats precisely the case with the latest Oscar Winner,HURT LOCKER,by Katheryn Bigelow. Following suit with movies such as Farenheit9/11, Syriana and movies that have common employed the Iraqi template, the movie focuses on the trials and tribulations of a US bomb squad that scouts for live bombs in war infested Iraq. Frankly, this movie does not appear any more than 'A DAY IN THE LIFE OF.." series that is commonly aired in educational institutions or the largesse of television channels that we get to see in our everyday life. After shelling out a bomb of a price to catch the Oscar sensation at the theaters, this flick is as confusing as its positioning between a mainstream cinema and a documentary. The movie goes down well as a documentary, but fails to elicit the same emotions when taken in the light of a film that has been bestowed with an Oscar in the mainstream cinema category. However, the movie does have its share of gripping moments but they are not strong enough to make you sit up and notice. As it were, the movie chronicles 30 days of a military operation in the midst of the Iraq and attempts to get the audience to go WOW with the cast getting busy with military like operations and defusing bomb after bomb and knocking of insurgents.
Come to think of it, the only reason a movie such as this could have fetched itself so many Oscars, is the sensitivity of America against terrorism and the recent global apathy. Guess, CNN deserves an Oscar instead of this movie,as they have been making the longest serial documentaries on Dafur and Iraq for sometime now.Will the real Oscar Committee Please Stand UP!!!!