Thought-provoking sugary excerpt taken from Rick Salutin's great op-ed in the Globe and Mail:
The Oscar combat between The Hurt Locker and Avatar, I'd say, was miscast as low-cost, feisty, relevant war film versus costly, hyped Hollywood blockbuster. But really, The Hurt Locker was a formulaic, “blow everything up real good” movie that concealed social reality (all Iraqis as faceless villains or passive victims), as well as environmental impacts. It's Avatar that had the deist spirit of environmentalism, with a reverence for all forms of life, including newly evolving ones. It also had, I'd say, the true documentary spirit, appearances notwithstanding, and all the kids I know adored it.
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