whats the fukn fuss?

Rating: Null/10 (8 March 2006)

jarhead is not a movie about politics nor should it be. it is an adaptation of a superbly written journal which follows the life of a soldier who doesn't really know what he is in for when he enrolls. there is far too much criticism about how Mendes should have pushed the envelope a little bit more, but its a story with more of an anti-war aspect to it, than an anti-Bush aspect. if anyone remembers back to good ol' Deer Hunter, you will see many resemblances. it showed people the horrific percussions of war, rather than the issue of whether they should have actually been there or not. the movie reveals "what" it was like in Iraq during the early '90s, not how it "should" have been.
and as if you couldn't love the movie for its acting and cinematography alone; mesmoerizing in the way Schindler's was.