Book Review - Hurt Locker (Samson Hsieh)

The Hurt Locker, modern day war film taking place in Iraq as Jeremy Renner portraying as Sergeant William James, a soldier whose profession is to disable bombs that are set up by enemy rebels throughout the country. Throughout the movie Jeremy acts if he does not care whether if he’s about to die and plays a very heroic and yet idiotic part, having a wife and son back home he continues do such things simply because it’s what he loves to do. He meets a boy selling DVDs and becomes quite close to him as the boy constantly scams him, knowingly he finds a bond with this boy. Eventually the boy ends up killed and stomach cut open with drugs placed inside of him, once finding out he loses control and decides to find his murder, ending up threatening the boy’s employer and forcing him to take him to the boy’s home. He was led to an unknown stranger’s home and was deeply upset knowing that he may not find the killer so he walks back to his camp and that was the end of that. Reaching the time in which they are suppose to be headed home, he returns to the states tries to enjoy the best he can and also sometimes having conversations about disabling bombs to his wife in which she completely ignores, feeling completely bored and not saving lives once again he returns to Iraq and risking his life all over again try to disable bombs. That is his what he loves to do and has no fear if that is his last remaining days on the planet, that is his life, his hobby.