Academy Awards Redemption

Thankfully the people who vote on such things were not baited by all the hi tech 21st century masqarade effects that might have persauded a less ambitious group of people to be swooned by the lastest edition of popcorn movie going. Real emotion, real passion, tears, angst, fear, and an overall lack of relation with contemporary society exists and needs to be recognized, raw, intelligent filmakers cannot be crushed, they must be seen and uplifted, nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, all the drugs, drink, and television cannot masked the insanity of living in this modern world. The Hurt Locker has a quality to it, all the masters of cinema dead or alive can get behind and I was really afraid this movie might not get its due, which after seeing in the movie theater made me believe in story telling once more that creative people did not have to become slaves to all the gadgets which have made blockbuster fodder so popular, film making is not about mass consumption, Akira Kurosawa. Bergman, Antonioni, Fellini, and Godard understood character, humanity, and all its faults rolled into one persona or a slate of personas within one human being, one town, or one world, this something that has escaped the lens of most film makers in this day and age, times are fast, dark, and unforgiving, but also elegant, charming, and thankfully humorous. The yin and yang of theater: laugh today, cry tomorrow, since Greek tragedy that thing called the soul must be addressed, not ignored, the wonder as well as the experience of waking up everyday with the addiction of immersing oneself into the sometimes turbulant seas of our world is the only real lesson we have left and once we abandoned it, all will be lost, so walk through the fire bravely and know it is a fine task to undertake.