Militainment

I never really thought about how the military and the war were being made entertaining by the media, until I watched militainment inc. Now that I am aware of it, I can see it every where, from movies such as Top Gun or Saving Private Ryan to commercial adds or video games. In my opinion and according to this film, the media is trying to make war seem better than what is it, they exaggerate the story, and they create an image almost beautiful, I think this because in movies or on the news a helicopter in front of a sun set is a beautiful sight and it draws people in. Also ridding in one of the military fighter planes has become a necessary past time, along with fire power, the bigger, the more powerful, the better, now isn't that kind of encouraging war? kind of like the worship of weapons as you could say it. Do you know what else bugs me is the fact that people can sit on the couch and watch war on the television like they are watching the Oscars or their favorite TV show, ( this is war people are dieing). I think people have not realized that war is slowly become apart of our every day lives, and lots of people are encouraging it. Encouraging war can be underestimated, for example movies and toys are a big ones but also reality TV shows play a big part in recruiting for the war and entertainment that people enjoy like, the reality show boot camp or war games.
what surprised me about this film was that war can actually take the form of entertainment, and that the pentagon encourages it. Also at the beginning of the war on Iraq the pentagon released a trailer called behind enemy lines, and the government actually made taking pictures of the coffins of dead solders coming back to America illegal, in my opining the government did this because they didn't want to show that they weren't doing so good with the war. But importantly some thing from the movie came to be an interest and that was what one reporter talked about a reporter who died while following soldiers around in Iraq from a blood clot, and that reporters pay the ultimate price. Seriously just because they go and risk their lives to get us footage that isn't necessary all true, does not mean they make the ultimate sacrifice. I would say the soldiers do because they are the ones engaged in battle they are the one who fight for their country and they are the one who have a great chance of being killed.
what scared me about this film was that the reporters talked about how beautiful the bombs and explosives were and how mesmerizing it was, also while one reporter was doing a tour of a war craft he was excited, happy and thrilled, to be inside and touring it.
what also scared me was that songs and singers like Toby Keith are pro war and Toby Keith was named king of war the movie sound track.
overall I think I learned a big deal from this film like war becoming a part of the entertainment industry, the media uses propaganda to persuade people to think what they want them to think, and everything is basically exaggerated. Mainly that war and the military is becoming more of fun entertainment than what it was, and many people are involved in it, making it truly militainment.