Daily Dialogue — April 29, 2016

LT. COL. JOHN CAMBRIDGE: So, you getting along with the other soldiers in your unit?
SPECIALIST OWEN ELDRIGE: Yeah, My team’s great. My team leader is inspiring.
Are you being sarcastic, soldier?
SPECIALIST OWEN ELDRIGE: No. He’s going to get me killed. Almost died yesterday. At least I’ll die in the line of duty, proud and strong.
LT. COL. JOHN CAMBRIDGE: You know, this doesn’t have to be a bad time in your life. Going to war is a — is a once in a lifetime experience. It could be fun.

— The Hurt Locker (2008), written by Mark Boal

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: War. Today’s suggestion by Katha.

Trivia: After Lina Wertmüller for Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975), Jane Champion for The Piano (1993) and Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003), Kathryn Bigelow is only the fourth woman to direct a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Dialogue On Dialogue: “Going to war is a — is a once in a lifetime experience.” What a line! This could meant sarcastically but as the psychiatrist states some lines before, he is not so much into sarcasm. And this kind of lifetime experience stops the film characters to resume their normal life at home (thinking of the protagonist totally overwhelmed by the choice of cereals).