Welcome To The Suck

Product Image: Jarhead
My rating: 4 out of 5

Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom… Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.

Nu är Jake Gyllenhaal verkligen igång! Två riktigt bra filmer med bara några månaders mellanrum.
Om man är ute efter en traditionell krigsfilm så är inte detta den. Denna film utfroskar mera deltagarnas psyken. Ungefär som Full Metal Jacket.
Även denna ligger i toppskiktet av förra årets filmer. Mycket sevärd!

I was 27 years old the first time I died.

Product Image: The Jacket
My rating: 4 out of 5

The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn’t know how. Thus commences the classic race against time.

Efter att ha läst Jimmys “långa” recension om denna film och nu sett den, kan jag inget annat göra än att hålla med. En riktigt bra film! Adrien Brody förtjänade verkligen den Oscar han fick för sin roll i The Pianist. I King Kong gjorde han ingen speciell roll. Men han är superb i denna filmen. Som vanligt gillar jag filmer med tidsförflyttningar. 🙂