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‘The Hurt Locker’ deserved to win
By Deborah Orr | The Guardian So Kathryn Bigelow has made it big at last, becoming the first female director ever to pick up the Oscar. She has been taking on the boys for decades and making the sort of action films that women on the whole just didn't tend to go near. But, until this latest movie, The Hurt Locker, Bigelow's gradual move away [...]
Why ‘The Hurt Locker’ win Sucks
By Sudhish Kamath, The Hindu ANALYSIS: It irks that Kathryn Bigelow's work bagged the honours at the Oscars though The Messenger was a smarter creation. After all, the brilliance of a film is in the storytelling, not in the story Did the Academy not watch The Messenger, made at half the budget of The Hurt Locker, by a first-time Israeli [...]
