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Full Metal Jacket
- What is the attitude of the director of the film Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) to the war in Vietnam?
- From your studies of this topic would you agree with his interpretation?
Full metal jacket directed by Stanley Kubrick. It was a war movie based on the United States Marine Corps (USMC) those were in Vietnam to fight. Stanley Kubrick split the movie in two parts to show to his viewers’ everything about war. In the first part is about training and the other part was about the soldiers in Vietnam and that is when the Tet offensive happened. Tet offensive happened between 20 and 23 September.
As I said before the movie was in two parts so the first part was all about training, how soldiers were treated by their leaders (Instructor) and how strict were their instructor. Stanley used a good example of a soldier mistreated was (Leonard 'Private Pyle' Pratt acted by Vincent D'Onofrio) and another good example of their instructor who was acted by Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. In first Stanley Kubrick was trying to show his viewers how the soldiers were trained and how they were treated by their leaders. He showed the instructor training the soldiers harshly and treating them like animals. Stanley showed that just because to tell his audience about lives of soldiers in boot camp and how stonehearted and careless the harsh training made them so they could fight their enemy without any fear and prepared them mentally so they could do anything during the war.