Monday, September 23, 2024

JARHEAD (2005)

 




















Directed by: Sam Mendes
Based on the memoirs by: Anthony Swofford
Starring: Jake GyllenhaalJamie FoxxPeter SarsgaardLucas BlackChris CooperBrian GeraghtyJacob VargasLaz AlonsoEvan JonesDennis HaysbertJohn KrasinskiBrianne DavisScott MacDonald

123 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, violence, nudity, scenes of war)

PLOT:
Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go?

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