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She was in the Army for a while and can attest to the accuracy of that part of the jake gyllenhaal film. I can't. What I can do is evaluate if jake gyllenhaal the film works from a narrative and dramatic point of view. It does and it doesn't. The film quickly and efficiently establishes Swoff through a series of brief flashbacks and some voice over narration. We learn that Swoff had a screwed up childhood, but we don't really understand why he would join the Marines. His dad was in Vietnam and we quickly learn that this screwed jake gyllenhaal up his family life. So why would that make Swoff interested in joining the military? It would seem to accomplish just the opposite. Once he arrives at the Marine base, the film becomes a series of scenes that we have seen in other, better films about the military; the abusive drill sergeant, the humiliation of a new recruit, the hard training. After the film moves to the desert, we meet Swoff's buddies in more detail. Again, characters from other, better war films; the joker, the earnest guy who wears glasses and listens to tapes from his family, the family man excited about the birth of his new child, the two Latino men who fight over the differences between their cultures.
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