I was 14 when I saw FMJ with my parents, and afterwards my mom cried for a full hour about the fact that I would eventually have to do Turkish military service.
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And Swofford eventually gets at this, but if FULL METAL JACKET seduced your generation and sent you off to war, the problem might be with your (and my) generation, not the film itself.
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If the last year has taught us anything its that some people are so hypnotized by guns and violence that they will ignore all rational arguments to the contrary
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I once heard the story of two recruits in military basic training in the German army, who recorded the part of the drill instructor on tape and heard it in their tent over and over on training missions and celebrated it without understanding the message
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That first half is obviously a horror movie with Hartman as Dr Frankenstein & poor Pyle as the monster. That eerie score in the bathroom pretty much confirms it.
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Exactly. If anything Kubrick’s film is an indictment of war, of the banality of it all. If Private Leonard Lawrence’s predicament doesn’t move you right off the bat, if it doesn’t make you sick and sad, what will?
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It’s a bit like watching Wolf of Wall Street and thinking, “hey I should become a hedge fund manager!”
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Yeah, well every draft dodging Conservative has a dad who grew up on John Wayne war movies. Yet they still seemed to raise a bunch of cowards. What was my point again?
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