Conclusion CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

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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 47 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