In films such as Saving Private Ryan, All Quiet on the Western Front or 1917, one battle follows the next, and moments of silence are few and far between. The situation is completely different in our Today’s TV tip Jarhead – Welcome to the Dirtwhich mainly shows the soldiers waiting. Nevertheless, the film, which is based on the memoirs of sniper Anthony Swofford, extremely disturbing in other ways.
Soldiers in the limbo of the Iraq war: Jarhead is on TV today
After a tough training as a sniper, the young US Marine Anthony “Swoff” Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) finds himself in the Arabian desert. Here he waits with the other soldiers (including Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black) and Sergeant Sykes (Jamie Foxx) for months on their deployment.
Between daily monotony and fear of poison attacks the soldiers gradually lose their minds. Desert football and macabre humor provide relief in the scorching heat, but even these cannot distract from the seemingly pointless mission and reinforce the desire for a life-threatening mission. Even without a direct fight, the Men in their personal hellmore precisely, limbo.
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Jarhead – Welcome to the Dirt
Another side of war: Even without major combat, Jarhead is disturbing
In Jarhead, director Sam Mendes focuses on the sideshows of war that are often neglected in films. The greatest enemy of the soldiers stationed on the ground is the mindless idleness and your own psyche, while missiles and fighter jets carry out the battle. Nevertheless, even without direct combat, there are impressive images of burning oil wells and wide landscape shots of a barren desert.
Actually, the soldiers should consider themselves lucky that their lives are not threatened and at the same time they long for this direct dangerA review on Rotten Tomatoes states:
These soldiers wanted action, any action, to justify why they left their real lives behind and Mendes manages to portray this torment.
Another says that Swofford and Mendes skillfully highlight the motivation of the young soldiers and emphasize that even the most fervent anti-war film a pornography for fighters Although the war is taking place right under their noses, it remains abstract and, alarmingly, Desire for a life-threatening mission greater than the desire to return home.
When will Jarhead be on TV?
ProSieben shows the war film in the this Saturday night, August 24th at 01:00There will be a repeat on Monday night at 3:30 a.m. If you don’t want to stay up that late, you can stream the film on Netflix, among other places.