Jarhead

[Chris]

I just saw this movie yesterday. The movie is much more than what most people think its about.

You get a feel for what its like to be deployed. The infidelities of spouses. You have the every characters. There is the insane dumbass (there is one in every company) and also there is the hard core lifer (also one or more in every company in the military) You get the guy in between and also the guy who disagrees with the war politically.

The movie is not just about the war, its about the lives of those affected by it. I loved how they showed the paths of all of the veterans afterward. They didn't give a time, but towards the end of the movie, it showed what each guy was up to I assume probably 2003-5. (the main part of the movie was during Gulf War I) The lifer (Jamie Foxx) in Iraq again, One other guy (forgot his name, a mexican guy) with his family at the fair. And the main character, at home civilian life, with the Marines still in his blood.

Its not a chicken hawk movie, its also not a liberal movie, its just a good movie about peoples lives.

The movie had a few subtle hints dropped throughout that totally make sense today, but at the time (1991) -they had no idea. Like one guy burning his desert BDU's saying "I don't need these anymore, we never have to come to this hellhole again!" (I was thinking to myself, "If you still are in in 2003, yeah you do buddy."

Great film. I do really recommend it.