• Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What's everyone's opinion on Jarhead?

    I haven't seen it in a while but I've been meaning to. I got to thinking about it a bit ago and I think it might actually be an interesting and misunderstood statement about war movies.

    They didn't make an antiwar film. They made an anti war film. They did a film about the sheer banality of warfare and actually turned the camera on the audience to point out how many people in the theater went there specifically because they got hard as shit watching "Saving private Ryan" or "black hawk down" and they wanted more.