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A high-pitch fever dream that explodes in your brain like an IED, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker leaves your head spinning, ears buzzing and veins pumping with adrenaline. “War is a drug,” the film cautions from the outset, but in the hands of Bigelow so is cinema. Though watching a film is hardly a substitute for reality, this one is so realistically shot, so well acted, so tightly edited and precisely sound designed that you come close to feeling the visceral horror, fear, uncertainty, exhaustion, and strange euphoria of war, of living at a level of pure survival where the smallest decision can make the difference between life and death…