It’s a genre that emphasizes action and existential angst. It’s the most masculine of genres, the fact that armies have throughout history often been almost exclusively male seeing to it that men almost always dominate these things. And make no mistake, the war movie is almost always about men. What is it good for? Well, if nothing else, then a tidy template for cinema: conflict, clear protagonists and antagonists, heightened emotions, and a generally unpredictable, lawless atmosphere which-as per the western-has since the dawn of cinema offered an elastic dramatic environment in which filmmakers can explore men at both their best and worst.
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