• Director: Sam Mendes
  • Release Year: 2005
  • Production Country: Germany, United States
  • Language: English, Spanish, Arabic, Latin

Jarhead

Description

Hyped and ready for anything, Swofford and his fellow marines find themselves in Saudi Arabia facing boredom and sand fleas rather than bullets, but six months later Desert Storm begins and it only takes five days of invading Iraq for Swofford's gung-ho attitude to undergo a radical but not unexpected revision.

Themes

United States Marine Corps (USMC), Persian Gulf War (1990 – 1991), Military sociology, Military history, Loyalties, Literature