Is chow allowed in the barracks, Private Pyle?Īre you allowed to eat jelly doughnuts, Private Pyle?īecause you are a disgusting fat body, Private Pyle! Holy Jesus! What is that? What the f*** is that? WHAT IS THAT, PRIVATE PYLE? We've gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. Son, all I've ever asked of my marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God.
Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win? I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir. Now answer my question or you'll be standing tall before the man. You'd better get your head and your ass wired together, or I will take a giant sh*t on you. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke? You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What is that you've got written on your helmet? Marine, what is that button on your body armor? In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line.
Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution.
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Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter.
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