The Hurt Locker.

I just watched this Saturday night. I started off liking it. It was well shot, superbly acted, and intelligently told. But, by the end, or at the end anyway, I was left wondering, what is the point? Yes, James is an adrenaline junkie. But where does that leave him, and us, when the movie ends? I was disappointed by both the lack of moral and the lack of resolution. Yes, James ends his rotation, returns home, and finds civilian life to be tedious. I get that when he is tasked with getting cereal, he is paralyzed by indecision. I get that. I feel that way about a lot of things. I get overcome by choices. But that is my own personality flaw. But James seems to choose to leave the mundane for the spectacular without any motive other than he is unwilling to face his flaws. He should see a therapist to deal with his addiction to stimulation. So, this film just left me wondering what the point of the story was. I understand it won a bunch of Oscars, but I'm not exactly sure why. What did the Academy see that I didn't? Am I too much like James, paralyzed by normalcy, that I can't see my own flaws and continue to participate in the addictions? Or was there some other point? I'm just not seeing it.