Jarhead and The Desert of The Real

'Jarhead and The Desert of The Real' is essay two in a five-part series intent on raising funds for those most significantly impacted by the current economic climate. The piece explores the variety of post-modern themes present in Mendes' Jarhead, specifically through the lens of Jean Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality. In attempting to situate and elucidate on the rhetorical context that gives way to a war film that is anything but, this essay analyzes the ideas inherent to the emptiness of modern experience. Or something.