Full Metal Jacket
I have to start off by saying that Robert Ebert was very critical of the movie. After seeing the movie I was left feeling a bit lost throughout all of the character changes and dry humor. It was refreshing to see that I was not the only one with mixed feelings on this movie, with not so positive ones being the strongest.
Ebert truly is a critic because he called it as it was. He made great points as to how Kubrick did not really build a character for us to follow and get attached to. The last scene of the movie is intense, but in retrospect it did not hurt me as much because I barely knew the character of Cowboy or any of the other ones.
He also talked about how the movie sets us up for certain things yet fails to follow through, like the “sexual parallels” that are started in the beginning of the movie with the homophobic slurs to the men sleeping with their guns, but nothing came from that Kubrick left us high and dry.
All in all, I believe that Ebert was a bit too harsh with the critique of the movie but it was very honest. I felt he at least should have commented on the whole “duality of man” that joker talked about in the movies for me to see what his opinion was.
I have to admit that I have not seen any other of Kubricks movies, but after this one I would like to see another one, to maybe further understand his style of directing and hopefully coming full circle with the movie Full Metal Jacket as well.
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