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2005, Germany, USA

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Genres:

Action | Biography | Drama | War

Actors:

Jake Gyllenhaal		Swoff
Scott MacDonald		D.I. Fitch
Lo Ming		Bored Gunny
Kevin Foster		Branded Marine
Peter Sarsgaard		Troy
Damion Poitier		Poitier
Riad Galayini		Nurse
Craig Coyne		Young Mr. Swofford
Katherine Randolph		Young Mrs. Swofford
Rini Bell		Swoff's Sister
Dendrie Taylor		Mrs. Swofford
James Morrison		Mr. Swofford
Arman Zajic		Boy Swoff
Brianne Davis		Kristina
Jamie Foxx		Staff Sgt. Sykes

Directors:

Sam Mendes |

Certification:

Hong Kong:III | Ireland:16 | Mexico:C | USA:R | France:U ... show all

IMDB Rating:

7.30 out of 10 (29913 votes)

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Taglines:	1: Every man fights his own way. 2: Welcome To The Suck
Plot Summary:	Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
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Jarhead movie review

posted on 22 December 2007

A couple of years back, a Class 5 tornado ripped through northern Kansas about 10 miles from my house. Watching the bruised sky and seeing the signs of impending destruction left me terrified, but also strangely elated at being a part of something so rare, devastating, and oddly graphic. These feelings endured for the length of the tornado warning: roughly an hour and a half. It’s unfathomable to think what it would be like to feel that way all the time, but ‘Jarhead’ comes close to capturing it.

The film is based on a popular bestselling autobiography and follows Anthony ‘Swoff’ Swofford’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) journey as a marine. Swafford, a third-generation soldier, starts out in boot camp in 1988, and abruptly finds himself in the middle of a desert outside of Kuwait as a sniper in Operation Desert Shield, an undertaking that left soldiers in the dark about whether they would be gassed, shot, shelled or rendered useless by a relentless allied technological air assault.

Here, in this lifeless barren landscape of the Saudi Arabian desert, Swafford endures terror of an impending combat, intense heat and equally intense boredom. All three are a perilous combination. Together, they breed homesickness, irrationality, a violent sort of introspection, and contemplations of infidelities back home.

Jarhead is an apolitical movie, a wise move considering that soldiers’ must be apolitical in order to be effective at what they do. Director, Sam Mendez focuses on the paradoxes that soldiers face instead of constructing a moral ideology. Themes include the fear of combat juxtaposed with the craving to be in combat, the apprehension of killing versus the longing to kill, and the contempt soldiers feel for each other versus the intimate relationships they share.

Mendez beautifully intertwines these themes into one unifying and terrifying analysis of what Gulf War soldiers faced (and still face) every day. Each character struggles with what the future holds for him.

The men in Swofford’s squad cope with this question in different ways. Soldiers talk, joke, lose their cool, fight, rebel, swear and watch war movies (they cheer along with ‘Apocalypse Now’ like it was ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show), while the imminent war looms over their heads like an ugly gale.

Clever and alluring performances further drive the film. Jake Gyllenhaal is required to be in almost every shot. His performance is technically stunning (Gyllenhaal embodies the skills, vigor and inner strength of a marine.) Peter Sarsgaard is perfectly cast as Troy, Swofford’s friend and mentor.

With ‘Jarhead’, Jamie Foxx finishes chipping away the public’s memory of his comedian persona. As Swofford’s Sergeant, Foxx presents a cool-as-a-cucumber career soldier who is reliable, passionate, and enigmatic.

‘Jarhead’ reaches its crescendo when Operation Desert Shield becomes Operation Desert Storm. I won’t reveal what happens, but let’s just say it’s not the type of climax commonly shown in war movies. ‘Jarhead’ manages to avoid clichés, remain entrancing, and present a side of war never offered before by Hollywood: a side that hundreds of thousands of American troops are experiencing right now.