Have you ever been a soldier?

Rachael 2021-10-22 14:34:43


I am afraid it is difficult for those who have not been a soldier to appreciate the beauty of this

film. This film accurately captures the
majority of the time spent in the process of serving as a soldier. Most of the time in the process of being a soldier is spent on meaningless trivial matters
or suffering for some meaningless trivial matters.
Various living habits, feelings and meanings. It will be more or less repressed or distorted,
but there is no great sadness or joy,
because when you are involved in a huge bureaucratic discipline machine,
everything is a piece of cake. The
so-called victory heroes or heroic failures
are all scholars. The

protagonist’s desire for real combat in the book ’s naive imagination
reflects on the one hand the noble beliefs instilled by the war machine,
but more of it comes from the impulse of unconscious rebellion against mediocrity,
from the other side reflects the
impulse of the potential violent nature of the discipline machine. In the end, I didn’t get vent and
declared that these beliefs and impulses are just a romantic and naive.

This
film can be said to be quietly subverting the mainstream tradition of historical war films.

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Jarhead quotes

  • Sgt. Siek: Will you shut the fuck up! There is no bugle program! You sizzle-dick motherfucker! Who do you think you are, some kind of Kenny G or some shit?

    Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: No, Staff Sergeant.

    Sgt. Siek: Good.

  • Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: [the Doors' "Break on Through" being played on a flying by helicopter] That's Vietnam music... can't we get our own music?