"Jarhead" is a Biography - Drama movie in which we watch a group of men who were selected to become snipers. After their training they were sent to take part in Gulf War. There they face many difficulties and they have to cope with the feeling of missing everyone and homesickness.
I liked this movie because it was different from the other war movies I have seen although it reminded me in some moments Stanley Kubrick's movie "Full Metal Jacket" which is a masterpiece. The direction which was made by Sam Mendes was very good and he presented very well the struggles of marines for their hard training to their operations in Gulf War. He also showed the other face of war, the true face of soldiers when they are prepared to go to war and when they are at war. Regrading the interpretations of the movie, Jake Gyllenhaal who played as Anthony Swofford was for one more time simply amazing, Jamie Foxx who played as Staff Sgt. Sykes was equally good and Peter Sarsgaard who played as Alan Troy made a very interesting interpretation. If you want to watch a different kind of war movie without the stereotypes of it, then just watch this movie.
I liked this movie because it was different from the other war movies I have seen although it reminded me in some moments Stanley Kubrick's movie "Full Metal Jacket" which is a masterpiece. The direction which was made by Sam Mendes was very good and he presented very well the struggles of marines for their hard training to their operations in Gulf War. He also showed the other face of war, the true face of soldiers when they are prepared to go to war and when they are at war. Regrading the interpretations of the movie, Jake Gyllenhaal who played as Anthony Swofford was for one more time simply amazing, Jamie Foxx who played as Staff Sgt. Sykes was equally good and Peter Sarsgaard who played as Alan Troy made a very interesting interpretation. If you want to watch a different kind of war movie without the stereotypes of it, then just watch this movie.