“Full Metal Jacket” Kubrick depicts the relationship between childishness and madness *Spoiler alert

"Full Metal Jacket" synopsis

Stanley Kubrick's stunning saga depicting the Vietnam War explodes. Matthew Modine (``Any Given Sunday''), Vincent D'Onofrio (TV drama ``Law & Order: Criminal Intent''), and a first-class cast star as U.S. Marine Corps recruits. From the extremely harsh basic training to the dehumanizing effects of the battlefield, the heroic experiences are detailed in detail. Full Metal Jacket is full of non-stop action and biting humor. If you watch it, it will blow your mind.

Index

• A phantom ending. the main character was supposed to die
• Training to become a soldier means returning to being a child.
• Childhood scattered on the battlefield
• Meaning of “Born Killer” and “Peace Mark”

*In order to respect the intentions of the original author/producer, we have published the lines as they were in the original text.

A phantom ending. the main character was supposed to die

Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket(1987), which takes place during the Vietnam War, is divided into two parts: the first half is a bootleg training sequence, and the second half is a sequence set in Vietnam.

The first half depicts the descent of a new recruit, Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio), into madness due to his instructor's ``juggling,'' and the second half depicts the Inferno that Private Joker (Matthew Modine) witnesses on the battlefield in Vietnam.

In fact, in the script before filming began, the main character, Joker, was supposed to die at the end. It was Kubrick's idea, but his co-writer Michael Herr was against it (Herr had written the narration for the main character in Apocalypse Now and was asked to join the project). Kubrick and Herr reportedly debated the ending of the film for quite some time. The Joker's death was not depicted in the finished work. Why did Kubrick try to kill off the main character and ultimately give up on it?

Training to become a soldier means returning to being a child.

``Full Metal Jacket'' depicts the process of emasculating young men and turning them back into innocent children, thereby instilling a madness in them that does not fear death. Therefore, in the training scene in the first half, the Joker and other recruits are repeatedly disciplined by the demonic instructor, Sergeant Hartman, with metaphors of castration.

“Ladies!”

"Don't be silly! Shout out!! Did you drop your balls?"

(Movie: Full Metal Jacket, quote from mom from dialogue/subtitles)

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Furthermore, Pyle, who is unable to keep up with the training, is forced to dress up as a baby and is forcibly given infantile characteristics. Recruits are thoroughly castrated during the training process, and their sexual desire for women is suppressed. Guns are the only thing that can be given to them in times like these. He falls asleep with the gun and is taught to love it by calling it a woman's name. Once castrated, they are now trained to be killing machines with a lust for guns. However, once their minds have degenerated into infants, they cannot easily return to adulthood. Deprived of their "maturity" as adults, they are sent to the Vietnam battlefield as violent infants.

Childhood scattered on the battlefield