Hurt Locker = war propaganda film or fair & balanced?

[Badassbab]

sapphi_snake said:

Badassbab said:

I thought it was a pretty good film, a bit long if you ask me but I don't see much politics behind it. It doesn't justify the war nor against it, just another one of the many Hollywood films to make us feel sorry for US soldiers.

In other words it's pro-war.

Not really because there are other Hollywood films which were anti war but through the prism of making us feel sorry for US soldiers (as opposed to the death and destruction wrought upon the native population). The numerous Vietnam War films spring to mind.

http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745329826& - Interesting read.