The Hurt Locker Historical Points

Introduction: For my film report, I chose to watch the movie The Hurt Locker. This movie was about the Iraq war and it followed a team of men who were being targeted by the Iraqi’s. This movie not only showed us both sides of the war, but it showed us the different effects war can have on a person. The movie started out very intense and sad with the master sergeant dying which led to the group getting a new leader. None of them really liked him because he was so calm all the time, but soldiers have different ways of coping and his was being cam and secluded.

Three Important Historical Points: One historical point about this movie was the actual Iraq War. There are two parts to this war, 2003 to 2011 and 2014 to now. The wars were different, but they’re the same, too. The first war was started because the United States didn’t wasn’t Saddam Hussein in charge anymore. The war continued because we many other Iraqis tried taking over the government and we chose to stay there to make sure someone good would take over head of the country. The United States withdrew their soldiers in 2011, but came back in 2014 for the same reason as we stayed there. Many of the wrong men tried getting all the power of the government. …show more content…
During the first three years of being in Iraq, about 151,000 to 600,000 were killed in combat. We also ended up winning the war, but having to come back in 2014 because the civil war in Iraq continued. The third historical point I found in this movie was about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was March 20th, 2003 when the United Stated sent our troops in to invade Iraq. This invasion led to the downfall of Saddam and the collapse of the Ba’athist