All the jarheads, killing and dying, they will always be me.

第一幕讓人想到《全金屬外殼》，但全片卻是另一種風格，沒有想像中那種強烈的視聽衝擊，大部份時間就是和鍋蓋頭們在沙漠裡行走。沒有同類影片中常見的血腥的戰爭鏡頭或激烈的故事情節，但依然有別樣的震撼。

只說一點。

片頭的獨白：
A story. A man fires a rifle for many years. Then he goes to war. And after war, he turns the rifle in the armory. He believes he is finished with the rifle. But whatever he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper, his hands remember the rifle.

片尾的獨白：
A story. A man fires a rifle for many years. Then he goes to war. And after war, he comes home. And he sees that whatever else he might do with his hands, build a house, love a woman, change his son's diaper, he would always mean a jarhead. And all the jarheads, killing and dying, they will always be me.

大體相似，但在細節上的改動足夠微妙。餘味悠長。