Jarhead

[pozorvlak]

I saw the movie of Jarhead a few days ago. It wiz braw. They'd changed a few things from the book, combining a few characters and incidents. Sometimes this had a big effect: for instance, in the book Staff Sgt. Siek is a late arrival and not a sniper, and is distrusted by the platoon because of his ignorance of sniping and disdain for their expertise, whereas in the film he's the one who trained them, and he commands considerable respect. And I don't remember Troy being such a calm voice of reason in the book. The film also lost the complex flashback structure of the book, and with it the majority of the stuff about Swofford's life before and after the war. But in general, yeah, it was really good, and you should all go and see it.

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