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CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
Masculinity are circulated in books, newspapers, TV programs, news, and music, including fiction, and films. Hollywood mainstream cinema has,
for much of the last century, offered portraits of masculinity and manhood which have helped Western culture to construct certain notions of
masculine identity. Nowadays Hollywood images masculinity by producing new physical and violent film versions of manhood.
The Hurt Locker is one the Hollywood war movie that portrait the
other side of masculinity. William James is a main character, he is a great leader, even though he is reckless, but he is responsible in his job. The Hurt
Locker is not like other war film because it is show sensitive and emotion
feeling of man which is devalue done by real man. The Hurt Locker focuses on an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, the guys whose more or less daily
job is to disarm the homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq.
This film looks very fit that showing emotion, that is displaying the other side of masculine. Military world which is a strong symbol of
masculinity has another side that should be revealed. That is depth explored in this film by James. We can see how James who is a bomb squad very frail
when he sees an Iraqi boy who become victims of the bomb, and when he call
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his family without saying anything, The Hurt Locker give out and explain the other side of masculinity that placed men on the battlefield. So it can be said
that The Hurt Locker presented XXXa new masculinity of William James. Commonly war movie present man as a hero who is strong, brave and deny
any kind of feeling and sensitiveness. But James in this film looks very sensitive, when he has to see Beckham who become victim a bomb body, he
tears up and becomes as emotional man, James appears to be attentive person also which eagerly helpful to each other, like when he has to disarm bomb
body of an Iraq man which has child and try to find somebody responsible of Beckham death. James also appears as a good father, he cares to his son, and
loving his family. The Hurt Locker
is war movie that show the other representation of man. It is because The Hurt Locker involves so much emotion of the bomb
squad in Iraq. Through the emotional and spiritual warfare that is displayed by James, it felt how miserable a soldier is mentally when on duty in the
battlefield.
B. Suggestion
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