The Hurt Locker

I really liked this movie.  I think that it was very good at trying to portray the sense of how intense it is to work under pressure in the way that these soldiers have to.  While all soldiers work under pressure the job that these specialists have to do is probably the least desirable one I can think off.  The one question I had however was that upon returning to the base it appears as though the kid who was killed was still alive.  Did the soldier mistake the kid who was killed for the one he had befriended?  That is what I concluded anyway.  I think the content applications to today are present and important as well.  The movie shows how civilians can be hurt or even killed even when soldiers are careful.  This applies especially to warfare today in the middle east.  It annoys me that newspapers seem all to eager to blurt out that "X number of civilians were killed in X country" and then blame it one the soldiers rather than on the terrorists.  While in some cases it is the fault of soldiers in many others it is the terrorists who kill their own people (The body bomb and the man with the bomb strapped to him).
I think this movie showed me the psychological effects of war (though All Quite and Yellow Birds were probably good at this as well) and also the level of tension and stress as well as uncertainty of who your enemy was.  To me there was no most memorable scene but rather several scenes that all went together.  The scene with the body bomb they found and the scene with the man who had the bomb strapped to him were both very memorable and actually made me angry more than anything else.  While the IEDs could have hurt innocents there were a number of attacks in the movie that deliberately hurt civilians and for those people I have no respect.  Rebels who fight against a military could be wrong, but honorable.  People who deliberately kill civilians are not respectable and must be stopped.
I'm going to be totally honest and just admit that I looked up what the title meant.  I obviously knew it wasn't good but I had absolutely no idea beyond that.  According to a BBC article the title is army slang for being injured in some way though it lacks a clear definition.