Jarhead

This film drains the military life of any kind of honor, patriotism, faith, and virtue | Gene Edward Veith

Jarhead (rated R) follows a group of Marines from boot camp to Operation Desert Storm, where they are supposedly traumatized for life, even though they never go into combat. The book the movie is based on, a memoir by Anthony Swofford, is labeled nonfiction. If this portrait of Marine life is factual, it still distorts the truth with what it leaves out. Jarhead drains the military life of any kind of honor, patriotism, faith, and virtue—leaving only bad language, filthy minds, and brutal behavior.

The movie is sympathetic to these young Marines only if you are a pacifist: Here are these wonderful young men. Look at how the military brutalizes them. See how they lose their innocence as the institution turns them into killing machines.

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November 19, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 45

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