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

Childhood scattered on the battlefield

Joker, who became a reporter for Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for soldiers in Vietnam, goes to the battlefield and witnesses the Inferno on earth. It's a Inferno filled with childishness. Snoopy is displayed in the editorial department of a newspaper, and a soldier is killed by a bomb planted in the stuffed toy. Furthermore, the sniper who attacks Joker and his friends at the climax is actually a "girl." This is a clear Signs from Kubrick, who has found madness and violence in infantilism in his works. In his films, infantility is a metaphor for insanity and death, and sometimes the theme is how to break away from infantility.

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Alex, the main character in A Clockwork Orange (1971), is depicted as a violent baby, wearing a hat and a diaper. He even undergoes brainwashing to become a proper adult. The image of the twin girls in The Shining (1980) is too sinister, even though they are victims of murder. `` Lolita '' (1962), which depicts a man who is ruined by his sexual love for a girl, is a great example.

Pyle, who commits suicide in the first half of ``Full Metal Jacket,'' falls into madness and is forced to die because he is like an innocent child who is so good and trusts others.

In Kubrick's work, in order to escape death and madness, one must escape childhood and become an adult. Just as ` `2001: A Space Odyssey '' (1968) depicts the process of humanity evolving to the next stage, or becoming an ``adult'', in order to save humanity from the fear of nuclear war. (It's ironic that it was in the form of a baby called "Star Child.") Joker , the main character of `` Full Metal Jacket ,'' becomes an adult and wears his own safety equipment in order to prevent his childish ``madness'' from exploding on the battlefield.