John Hurt

“The Hurt Locker,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, is about an American bomb unit during the Iraq war. This movie stands out to me because it is realistic and makes me feel as if I am the fourth person in the humvee. The first scene, the audience is introduced to the unit and the dangerous environment they are in. Three soldiers led by Sergeant Thompson are investigating a bomb. While Thomson looks at the bomb first hand, a secret bystander activates the bomb, and kills…

just getting to my prime; it was exactly where I wanted to be. I was content with my skills. I cannot even remember doing anything to my knee. All I knew was that it hurt. During halftime I put my “just-in-case” knee brace on and continued to play. After the game, as well as that night, my knee felt sore, but nothing too bad. It hurt to straighten my leg…

Marina, the Unsung Hero of “Uncle Vanya” “People might not remember us, just so long as God does.” (Chekhov 90) Secondary characters in literature are all too often ignored, and “Uncle Vanya” is no exception. However, in this play, secondary characters, most notably Marina, help provide balance to the antics of the Serebryakov family. She is a constant and is someone they can rely on. Through working for the family for years, the rest of the cast has learned to depend on her. Furthermore, the…

saw different kinds needles and some thread. When the doctor started, I was not in pain. He numbed my foot so that's why. The doctor continued. It took a long time just laying down in pain. When the doctor was at the edge of my wound it started to hurt so I told him and he gave another shot and quickly finished. When he finished I look at my foot and see stitches in a line of my foot. I got twelve stitches. Then the doctor brings a cast and I put it on my…

The Hurt Locker tells the intense day of a specialist bomb disposal unit during the Iraq war led by Sergeant Thompson. It follows the daily work in Baghdad of three U.S. Marines, who make up a bomb disposal unit, as they specialist. These soldiers are in charge with carrying out one of the most dangerous jobs in the world that is defusing enemy bombs planted in war zones. When he dies during a mission, Sergeant James an unpredictable and reckless soldier takes his place and commands the unit.…

IMPETUS: the force by which a body moves. A single flickering street lamp illuminated the abandoned streets below. Ash danced on the wind, interrupted by the charred, black skeletons of what had once been sturdy foundations to village houses, coating the parts of the street where there was still gasoline with burnt memories. It settled on the occasional corpse, mimicking skin where the muscle had been touched by fire, drawing halos of gray chalk around the shattered skulls of innocents that had…

was when I was ten years old and I still have never ran into anything more painful. The wart was on the bottom of my foot. It was under the big toe on my left foot. At first it was a pencil tip sized, darker skin colored mound on my toe. It didn’t hurt when I walked on it or if I touched it. When it first grew I didn’t know it was a wart I just thought it was a random spot on my foot. Over a couple weeks it got bigger. It got to the size of about an eraser on a pencil. I was laying on the…

Women and film, they have being making movies since the beginning of filmmaking and they have always being suppressed by the film industry. Women never really managed to get the space and respect that they deserve with film. From 1896 when the first women made a movie to now 2016, 120 years later not a lot has changed in the industry. They are still not being employed as much as men, nor are they making the same amount of money as men and they are defiantly not getting recognizing by the awards.…

two foreign objects were coming out and it was not going to be pretty. He latched onto one pulled until it game out of my wrist and through my skin. The blood poured everywhere and if it was not for the pad it would have been on my clothes too. It hurt so bad and I could not take another one, but I had to. The doctor pulled it out and I was done. He gave me a short cast for another three months then I went back for a removable cast for the next month and this almost year long ordeal was over,…

Side and The Hurt Locker are two films that depict the military and war. Both are centered around the Iraq War, where the United States invaded parts of the Middle East. Both films attempt to describe life as a soldier and the requirements of military life in dangerous situations. While The Hurt Locker is designed as a thriller, Taxi to the Dark Side acts as a documentary. These contrasting genres offer differing views of life in the military during a recent military conflict. The Hurt Locker…