Pot cover head—actually also very handsome!

Karley 2021-10-22 14:34:44

It's another movie about American soldiers. In my memory, I have seen many such movies. For example, Tom’s "Born on July 4th", which tells the life of soldiers returning home from the battlefield in Vietnam after returning home, revealing the effects of the war. The huge trauma they brought makes people think about the meaning of war. This "pot head" (called "pot head" in the movie, and the pot cover and the pot are both self-deprecating titles for their hair style) also expresses the same subject, except that this war took place in the 90s of the 20th century. On the battlefield in Iraq in the 1940s.

In the peaceful age, people should have lived a peaceful and comfortable life in their homes with their families, lovers or friends, but the war brought these young people who were born in the peaceful age and grew longer on the battlefield. Experience the cruelest war grind. The male protagonist in this film (played by Jack Granhaner, once starred in Brokeback Mountain) is no exception. When he was 20 years old, he had already become a member of the US Marine Station. As a recruit, everything in the barracks was unheard of before. I have to admit that the reason why the United States can have the best marines in the world is not without reason why it is called "American Soldiers". They began to instill in soldiers "I am the worst in the world" when they first joined the army. Thoughts such as "people" give soldiers a strong sense of self-confidence and dominate the battlefield. Strict management and cruel training often caused many soldiers to withdraw from the army midway. I don’t remember which movie I saw such a scene. The army used real guns and live ammunition in training. Soldiers were threatened with death at any time, and some of them had been training before they even went to the battlefield. Has been sacrificed. I don't think other countries can do such cruel training.

The soldiers in the film have been waiting for the chance of war since they entered the desert, but this wait is only 6 months. While waiting, they have to train in the hot desert, and even run and play ball in three-proof suits. As a result, they gradually became bored and began to explore the meaning of life, then masturbate, disassemble the Walkman, then masturbate, tell each other about their former girlfriends, continue to masturbate, dream about life after returning home, and then continue to masturbate... ...That's all of their lives. During this period, his girlfriend ran away with others, and the wife of another soldier sent them a video of having sex with another man, so they began to doubt the true meaning of the war. Finally, they waited for the real war, and they also found that everything was much crueler than they thought. At the end of the film, he finally waited for a chance to assassinate a high-ranking enemy official, but the moment he pulled the trigger, the mission was cancelled and executed by the Air Force. This sudden change put his teammates on the verge of collapse. Because they are so eager for a real chance to shoot and kill the enemy! When they returned to the base, it had become a sea of ​​joy, and everyone was reveling, because Saddam surrendered and the United States won the war. This means that they can go home immediately. This group of soldiers vent their various emotions about the war to their heart's content. In the end, they collectively fired their guns at the sky. The hearty and hearty let us see how lonely and unbearable their six months of waiting have been!

In the end, they returned to their own countries and lived their own lives. The members of the US Marine Corps were already out of reach for them. As the male protagonist said: "A story that has been used for many years Rifle, and then he went to war, and after the war, he returned home. No matter what he does, build a house, love a woman, change his son's diaper, he will always be a...can. All The cans, the killers and the dead, they will always...will be me. We are still in the desert."

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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?