The Hurt Locker

Mar

4

2010

It might be painfully obvious by my blogs, but I am a huge movie geek, so with the Oscars approaching this weekend, I can’t help but write about one of my picks, “The Hurt Locker.” In “The Hurt Locker” Staff Sergeant James, (Played by the very talented Jeremy Renner) carries with him a locker filled with things that almost killed him, filled with parts of disarmed bombs, that any one of them would have taken his life. This was something that no sane person would do right? Director Kathryn Bigelow when asked about films said this, “I respond to movies that get in your face, that challenge you, that take risks… I think of films as wonderfully complex questions.” This is something Kathryn Bigelow does so amazingly well, with “The Hurt Locker,” she gets in puts you in the characters heads, and allows us to experience this intense moment with these characters, and all these emotions are dredged up. One question, for me, that Bigelow brings to mind, what do I keep in my “hurt locker?”

But I thought isn’t there things that have broken me that I just won’t release, that I carry with me, hidden from God? I know for me, I battle so much with releasing things to God that have hurt me. I hold on to them and keep them in the dark, so I can rationalize my reaction to things because I am damaged, but when I do release them to God, I have amazing freedom and I have a clear mindset. It helps me to live, and not react. Do you have a hurt locker? What do you keep hold off?

Steph produces The Basement 360 and promo videos for Steelroots, has her master's degree in film from Regent University, and loves movies and music.

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