I’m not sure if you’re referencing this or not, but Israel literally has a genre of movie called ‘shoot and cry’ that’s exactly this; unsurprisingly there are Israelis who want this genre to be renamed because of how it comes off to non-Israelis (they don’t use that genre name in a mocking way, they do literally mean soldiers who are sad after killing people):
yes, i’m explicitly referring to the shoot and cry practice that the zionist entity perfected, but i would argue was developed by the united states imperial military during its prosecution of the gulf wars. an important component of constructing this hyperreality is the juxtaposition of images of overwhelming firepower and images of mournful soldiers.
bomb and cry is one of the pillars of wars-that-don’t-exist as produced by western media.
I’m not sure if you’re referencing this or not, but Israel literally has a genre of movie called ‘shoot and cry’ that’s exactly this; unsurprisingly there are Israelis who want this genre to be renamed because of how it comes off to non-Israelis (they don’t use that genre name in a mocking way, they do literally mean soldiers who are sad after killing people):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_and_crying
yes, i’m explicitly referring to the shoot and cry practice that the zionist entity perfected, but i would argue was developed by the united states imperial military during its prosecution of the gulf wars. an important component of constructing this hyperreality is the juxtaposition of images of overwhelming firepower and images of mournful soldiers.
I think it goes back even further to Vietnam. Most Vietnam War media is like this.