Our end-of-year movie podcast featured plenty of spirited argument, but one point of unanimous agreement was the excellence of “The Hurt Locker,” which manages to do justice to the Iraq War without lapsing into cheap moralism or clumsy political commentary. If you’re interested, I recommend you check out this interview with the film’s screenwriter, who was previously embedded with a bomb-disposal unit during the war.
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on Terror On The Potomac: The DCA Collision"mostly de conflict" We should probably look at "mostly" some more, then. Maybe underline it.
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