like a latter day ayn rand and bigelow be la major muy macho in her depiction in the film of a few tough american hombre stick in iraq defuse roadside bomb set by the ruthless and relentless and child kill arab terrorist . a bigelow posit the iraq war a the backdrop of the grand stage of human drama and one veteran bomb expert get blow up and another show up to replace him in the dusty and hot and ugly rubble that be iraq and and a new hero be bear . the new guy be what john hershey describe in his book and and later the movie and the war lover and a a sadistic wingnut who actually isn not fit for civilian life and and require the stimulation of war to sublimate and suppress his errant sexual desire . the war lover can only fully function in war and peacetime suffocate him . while hershey chastise the war lover and ( play in the film by steve mcqueen in one of his great role ) bigelow glorifies him . the army need war lover and they be the bulwark of defense against our enemy . we can not handle the truth and that it be war lover who be the best soldier and the tough men . accord to the unironic bigelow and regular men be pussy and the war lover be a special breed and the last of the cowboy . so what if he want to bare back his men and or fondle an iraqi boy . he be a throwback to the sex and death cult of war . in war and sex be a thankless and loveless and do not ask and do not tell kind of male bonding . bigelow have no opinion on this while she just limit the option of masculinity in this ham fisted attempt at realism . only a war lover can win the moral struggle between right and wrong and between american innocence and arab perfidy . bigelow disguise her racism and arrogance behind the ingenuous facade of journalism . she just another gung ho yahoo depict a brutal war against civilian a a moral triumph of the spirit . on the political front and bigelow return to the western genre and it relentless clichés again and again and ad nauseam represent the wonderful world of the open frontier and which happen to be some one else country . ( you can shoot people here say a soldier ) while the tough but human black guy companion and the soldier with a premonition of death and the gruff and possibly crazy command officer and the college educate fool who try to befriend the enemy . you name it and bigelow resurrects it . the man boy love be palpable in scene with the cute arab boy who befriend the war lover and but bigelow play it straight while she doesn not consummate the sex and just sanitize it . what bigelow really want to show u be the ugly and sneer face of the arab enemy . any iraqi who isn not pure evil be either demented and hostile or up to no good and anyway . they all deserve to die for their impudence and and many of them do in this glib gore fest film . the iraqi woman be all hysterical and they only make their presence know by scream . they could be male stunt men in drag for all i know and you never see their face . there be no female presence at all on base or in battle and although female casualty rate in iraq would certainly disprove this . bigelow go through all the motion one by one . she glorify war and she canonize the sadist nut case hero . the cowboy and surround by the subhuman indian and prove their mettle by do god work and subdue the wretched terrorist infest hellhole with sheer bravado and suicidal mania . toward the end and i felt like root for the indian . in bigelow world and though and no mercy or understanding ever make it through . the iraqi be dehumanize par excellence . the slaughter of civilian be just the dramatic backdrop to our hero psycho sexual struggle . every u. s and bullet find it mark . you have to love the guy and the war lover . it just his way and he be the true hero . he just a guy try to get thing do the hard way and and so what if he lust for boy tang on the side .