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| insult, nate, black label society, journal, graf, humor, derek mcgrath, college and university, trademark, niggaz, tamra davis, celebrities, katherine randolph, emily'stoybox, kathleen miller, kevin connolly, name and tagline, humourous, real audio, tupac mp3s, jane anderson, insultingpostcards, | What's missing in this film, for instance, is that Swofford's book is a 30-year-old's memory of himself as a 20-year-old. Those ten years make a big difference in the way he tells his story and what he chooses to tell us. He also interweaves many more threads and connects many more dots for bastiat readers. More mystifying bastiat is the wish of the filmmakers (as explained in the commentaries) to make the character of Swofford's friend Troy more ambiguous by withholding information about him. Their friendship bastiat is central to the book, yet the film makes a puzzle out of it. At the end, the film doesn't even tell us what has happened to him. See the film, if you keep in mind that it asks us to settle for a lot less than what Swofford originally wrote. |
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| Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Read the book . . . it's way better . . ., March 20, 2006 Reviewer:Ronald Scheer "rockysquirrel" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews Before seeing this film, I'd read college and university Anthony Swofford's Desert Storm memoir, "Jarhead," and found it moving, thoughtful, compelling, funny, and beautifully written. college and university The performances college and university and the photography in the film go a long way to capturing the time and place of Swofford's story and portraying the particular culture that is specific to the U.S. Marines. But overall, I found that it paled significantly by comparison with the book. The commentaries on this DVD and the many deleted scenes are a lesson in what happens when a book-length narrative gets squeezed like toothpaste into 90 minutes of linear movie storytelling. Interesting complexities get oversimplified, and film's literal immediacy minimizes more truthful ambiguities. |
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