What movie do you think will win Best Picture in 82nd Academy Awards?

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sapphi_snake said:
None of what Bigelow said in that quote was reflected in the movie. Plus, she herself stated in many interviews that she wanted the movie to not take any political stance, but focus on what the soldier's job is all about. The movie in no way tried to say whether or not the efforts of those soldiers are in the end worth it, or if they're just risking their lives for nothing.
I also don't think that anyone who is a soldier should complain about how hard they have it. After all no one forced them to join the army (I believe that there is no mandatory military draft in the US) and a lot of them joined especially to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Or maybe you just missed the point of the movie. I only Googled and read that line from Bigelow two minutes before I posted it. I gathered that entire feeling from the movie and so did my movie buff friends who watched it. I never read a review of the movie or anything about it; I went in cold. I knew it was about the war and soldiers who disarm IEDs and that was it.

But you go ahead and keep on holding that line that the movie is pro-war. You're in the vast minority who feel that way about it, at least among the people I know who have seen it and according to Bigelow herself.

And you're the one who has an obvious bias if you feel the soldiers have no right to complain. I'm starting to believe that unless every soldier in that film died horrifically, you'd be hell-bent on believing that it advocates war. Many of the people over there have been stuck there far past their agreed upon service time and are not provided adequate materials, weaponry, and armor to properly succeed in their tasks. They may have joined up because they felt it was the right thing to do in service of their country and found something entirely different once they arrived in the actual warzone. Frankly, I find your attitude sickening and demeaning to people who feel it's their duty to serve their country, no matter how misguided their attempts to do so may be. At the very least, they deserve some respect and sympathy from those of us (you included, obviously) who are sitting in their cozy chair at home bitching and moaning about the job they're doing.