This 2008 military film claims to be about realism and a soldier's addiction to war. But we learn that despite writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow's best intentions, it doesn't accurately reflect the experience of veterans.

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• The Hurt Locker
• Near Dark
• Blue Steel
• Point Break
• Sheriff of Babylon
• Pride of Baghdad
• The Night Porter
• Eat the Apple

Additional Resources:

• Here’s Why ‘The Hurt Locker’ Is The Worst War Movie Of All Time
• U.S. bomb expert says "Hurt Locker" stole his story
• Iraq War Vet Ordered to Pay $187,000 in Failed Lawsuit Against 'Hurt Locker' Producers
• The Hurt Locker: interview with Mark Boal
• The Hurt Locker: So Right About Men, So Wrong About Addiction
• What's Wrong With 'The Hurt Locker'
• First sight: Mark Boal
• Driscoll, S. (2013). The Hurt Locker (film). Salem Press Encyclopedia,
• TAUBIN, A. (2009). hard wired. Film Comment, 45(3), 30-35.
• The Iraq war -- from the troops' point of view
• Kathryn Bigelow