Movie Review-The Hurt Locker

The hurt locker portrays pacifism in that the people involved in war are universally negatively affected. It shows this through the main character's attempts to go back into a normal life, which doesn't work and he responds to this by going back into the warzone. He decides that he can only function in a war atmosphere. He also shows the negative affects of war through his reckless behavior, which shows that he really doesn't care whether he lives of he dies.

There is also the example of the child that the terrorists put the bomb into. This child was an innocent bystander but still was killed and turned into an agent of war.

I do agree that there are very little upsides to war. But I wouldn't agree that it is universally negative, I think that in order to have a somewhat "just" war there has to be an upside to someone. While there are serious consequences to every war, I would like to believe that in virtually every war someone is positively affected (probably not true at all but i said that's what i would LIKE to believe).