The story of a real soldier without a war scene

Adalberto 2021-10-22 14:34:44

A natural, objective, and detailed film. Although the film is based on the first Gulf War, it reveals what must be in any war-the common story of soldiers. So it can happen to Russian soldiers, it can happen to British soldiers, or it can happen to Iraqi soldiers.
This is a natural film, because there is no lone hero, no wise colonel, no brave lieutenant, no love story. Some are just the emotions and desires of ordinary soldiers, while others are excitement, loneliness, fear, and loss. This cannot even be called a war movie. There is no battle scene from beginning to end, and no Iraqi soldier is even seen. Only the American soldier who has been killed by mistake has died. What you see is just a group of American boys baptized by war.
This is an objective film. I wanted to use justice to describe it, but I found that justice itself needs a criterion, so justice is self-contradictory. The objective is that the film has no political color, no deliberate patriotism, no deliberate anti-war sentiment, and no vilification of Saddam or the Iraqis. It describes how people react to war.
This is a detailed film. The film has quite a lot of spectacular scenes, but the director is not obsessed with the big scenes. Many scenes are trivial stories about the lives of soldiers, expressing delicate feelings. The sound of the film is also top-notch, so you must watch it in a wide-screen, good-quality theater.
The film’s male lead Jake Gyllenhaal is a rising star in the United States, and he performs well in the film. I will see it appear in another movie in the near future.

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Extended Reading
  • Kaela 2022-04-21 09:01:34

    It's hard to make a movie like this.

  • Kaela 2022-04-22 07:01:05

    Eggy's sadness, the soldiers alienated by war like the full metal shell, did not discuss metaphysics, but just showed their kinky ginseng.

Jarhead quotes

  • Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: [voice over narration] The Marine must learn to kill. He may wear a tattoo, or display his medals, or tell lies in bars. But he is not a true marine until he has seen combat.

  • [first lines]

    Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; his hands remember the rifle.