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Originally Posted by eric generic
your statement is a bit too general to mean much to me. how do they showcase their transcendental nature? "war films" is one genre that really doesn't mean much to me save the setting. i would classify most that i have seen as dramas(kinda like westerns).
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The Hurt Locker is set during early years of the Iraq War but the theme of the movie is more so about the emotional challenge faced by the soldiers than it is actual combat and operations. So in that sense, as you put it, it is an emotionally fueled drama set in the Iraq War.
Black Hawk Down is a lot closer to being a straightforward war movie that addresses the themes of that "conflict". Still, it's an incredibly intense and powerful film...