Hurt Locker Analyse

Non-diegetic sound is also used fittingly in The Tall Man. In interviews, often there is subtle instrumentals playing. When the film is detailing more of the distressing components of this case, suspenseful and tense music is playing. One key scene where non-diegetic sound is utilised, is when a picture of Doomadgee is focused slowly zoomed to and in the background the song, “(San Francisco) Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair,” is playing. Not only was it one of Doomadgee’s favourite songs but the jovial melody forces viewers associate him with it. Effectively, emphasising that a good man wrongfully died.

Hemingway has made use of the book as a symbol of war to stress the soldier’s inability to lead a normal life (McKenna and Raabe 210). The symbol is used in the context of many other elements that convey Krebs’ distance from his own life. The book about war is a literary symbol that Hemingway employs in a specific context.

Published in 2008, The Forever War by Dexter Filkins compiles a series of vignettes that detail his encounters as a reporter in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Released a year after, director Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker also examines a harrowing account of the conflicts in Iraq. Both works poignantly present the unbridled violence that plague the region, and the futility of a war embedded within a vicious cycle of retaliation. Nevertheless, the portrayal of vengeance as a major motivating force of the war, as well as the war’s isolating and demoralizing effect on its witnesses, are better achieved in The Forever War. Contrary to the sole perspective of an American Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) team in The Hurt Locker, Filkins includes multiple angles to explore each of the elements portrayed, and ultimately offers a more profound, subtle, and enduring explication than the film.

He touches on their tragic deaths compared to their hopeful letters of going home and seeing their loved ones. He describes his astonishment as he realizes that none of these men actually showed hatred or abuse towards the German, they simply believed and had conviction in the justice behind their cause. This letter illustrates the feelings of a once happy man, now stuck at war. He says, "War hardens ones hearts and blunts ones feelings…"(p.68). This young soldier has lost all signs of the happy life he led back home. The harshness of war got to him just like the rest of the soldiers out there and if they so much as dreamed about accepting the reality around them, they would have gone either insane or surrendered and he could not give himself that luxury so onward he went.

Passage 1 shows a young soldiers view on war. Its shows the view of how from war you can reach maturity. He goes from a boy who brags about war to someone who has reached enlightenment. He sees his action during battle as a betrayal but he comes to terms with it. “Followed by the somber phantom of desertion in the fields.”(Line 3) “...Put the sin at a distance ….his eyes seemed to open to some new ways”. (Line 6) He uses words such as “tranquility” and “sturdy” to show how the soldier has matured into a man. The author’s use of diction is a guide through the characters growth.

At the time, many that were drafted into the war didn’t know what they were fighting for and why they were there. Not only is war physically exhausting, but many soldiers suffered from psychotic breaks and from PTSD. A method to interpret Tim O'Brien's experience in war is to look at his mental state through Psychoanalytical Criticism.

He uses his photographic memory to recall his accounts and show first hand what war can do to a child. In this quote at the end of the novel during his time of reflection after he is out of the wartime scenario ““My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.” this quote shows how he feels about what the war has done to him as a person. He must suffer and try and live a seemingly normal after the fact. In this quote, the narrator must go out of his way to show his classmates he is not a soldier anymore. “It was not easy being a soldier, but we just had to do it. I have been rehabilitated now, so don’t be afraid of me. I am not a soldier anymore; I am a child.” The trouble his past is putting the narrator thought is not helping the trauma he still faces and the memories of the horrors he was forced to do during his time as a soldier. All of these negative things he portrays in the story are being used to inspire the reader to shape culture differently and not allow these horrors to happen

The battlefields of the war portray a frightful image filled with psychological horror and physical trauma. Billy suffers from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder because of the great amount of death and horror he endured in the war. He relives negative past experiences, has trouble remembering, and feels emotionally detached from society. He cannot decipher

In the film it used 1 Diegetic sound and 1 Non-Diegetic sound to represent the tension/tone. The diegetic sound used was the emphasized sound of cracking glass. This was used when there was an Extreme Close Up of Walter crushing a cup in his hand to show how angry and hurt he felt that Mama spent the money without talking to him. The Non-Diegetic sound used was when the film added a scene where Walter is at the bar. During this scene the audience could hear sad fast paced music.

The Hurt Locker can give almost anybody the nerves with its numerous suspenseful moments. But what lies inside all the tension filled scenes is a much deeper meaning. Kathryn Bigelow stresses an important message in this Oscar-winning epic. Although the film depicts the gruesome horrors of war, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is not an anti-war film. The Hurt Locker is a film about James’s addiction to war because it shows his desire tension risk filled scenes, his lack of resentment for the war, and his inability to integrate himself back into “normal society”

A common goal in life for young people is to grow up, get married, and dream of a future with hope. For Paul Baumer a young protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front his future is doubtful. “Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing anymore. I am so alone and so without hope that I can confront them without fear” (Remarque 295). Baumer reveals that, the war strips him of everything he cherishes such as his family, friends, and the hope of a future.

During a chase non-diegetic music reflects urgency and eminent danger when the Wild Bunch is running from the Russians through the back streets of the London. There is a moment in the chase where One-Two believes he has gained the upper hand in out running a large exhausted pursuer and the music slows down momentarily only to quickly speed up again when One-Two realizes he is in harms’ way for the man’s counterpart, lean, fit, and dangerous, appears ready for a run. In the Wild Bunch hang out diegetic background noise including pool cue hitting the ball, the television, a fridge being opened and closed, and the clinking of stirred tea cups all melds together to create a sense of familiarity and ease within the club. In a party scene non-diegetic music becomes diegetic music when Stella and One-Two dance while discussing plans for the next heist. I think Guy Richie’s best scene revolves around the switching back and forth between diegetic and non-diegetic music when Johnny Quid, the missing rock star, is refused entry into a night club. Johnny, angry after being rebuffed, exacts a brutal attack on a beefy bouncer for pushing his friend. The attack, carried out with a pencil and a nearby trash lid seems to be driven, choreographed, and mirrored by the loud, harsh, angry music performed by the band inside the club. In this film diegetic and non-diegetic music is crucial to the telling of the story; without it the film would not have the same

I first thought it was used to set a tone or mood. However, later on in the scene we hear Principal Joe Clark tell the students to turn off their radios. At this point the beat is now diegetic. The diegetic sound is used to let the audience know that the commotion and havoc is much worse then we had originally thought. The sound editor switches a song from being diegetic to non-diegetic often in the film.

Diegetic sound plays an important part in this sequence, especially during the medium sized shots of the fighters. During these shots, we hear natural grunts from the fighters, as well as non-diegetic impact sounds added for effect. The diegetic impact sounds may not have carried over well enough onto film, so the editors

Even before the first shot was revealed—when the screen was still black—non-diegetic sound was heard as a typical upbeat, Rocky-in-action instrumental played, setting the mood for the dramatic fight scene that followed. The non-diegetic sound in this scene served primarily to further dramatize the action-packed fight-scene. As for non-diegetic sound, there were many different examples of this in which I found quite effective. For instance, the grunts and moans heard from Rocky and Apollo after exchanging blows, I thought revealed how much emotion each fighter was fighting with. Another example came towards the the end of the scene, when the ring announcer called the fight "the greatest exhibition of guts and stamina in the history of the ring.