Jarhead welcome to the suck

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I think Mendes makes films that are exercises. And Jarhead succeeds as an exercise in gay metaphor. By emphasizing the male bonding rituals that go on between the troops, Jarhead is the gayest war film of all time. Recipe for gayest war film of all time: 1.

How to solve the potential problem of making war seem exciting? Take away the war. And waiting.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Anthony Swofford, a Marine sniper ordered to fight the first war in the Persian Gulf by staying in constant readiness for a shot that never comes. Gyllenhaal is the heart and soul of a darkly intense and ferociously funny movie that sets its sights on soldiers under the gun of doing nothing. What he does do, with unnerving honesty, is render a war of bombs and burning oil fields — the media mostly relied on aerial views — from the point of view of the ground soldiers eating the smoke and dirt. That alone makes Jarhead unique. The spark is the source material, a memoir by Swofford who was twenty and full of piss and vinegar when he enlisted in the Marines in the summer of and shipped out to the deserts of Saudi Arabia.