GO TO WAR

Caterina 2021-10-19 09:48:10

I rarely write film reviews, but after watching Kubrick’s movies, listening to Pink Floyd’s fascinating wall, I feel like being empowered.
"Full Metal Case", it looks like drinking a glass of beer when I watch it, and I realized that I was drinking vodka after I thought about it.

4 fragments, let me start thinking about something.

Speaking from the end of the film, when JOKER was about to shoot, Lao Ku gave him a long close-up, allowing me to combine the previous scenes and focus on the "BORN TO KILL" and chest on his helmet. On the other "peace" signs. JOKER took out the pistol from my arms, I looked at the screen, and slowly puffed up my cheeks with him. The camera is still on him, like a severe test, a tangled gaze. However, I love this long shot so much, and what a dramatic change Lao Ku gave him. JOKER slowly squeezed the trigger with his right hand. During this period, his upper body slowly twisted to the left with the direction of the force. Accompanied by that, the "peace" sign on the left chest was gradually covered by the left collar like a lunar eclipse. Live, and at the same time—maybe my imagination—the "BORN TO KILL" on his helmet became clearer, until he gritted his teeth and ended the life of the female sniper. At this time, I asked myself, is this war or peace?

Then it reminded me of the dialogue between JOKER and the officer in the dead man's pit, mixed with a large number of "Sir, yes sir.", "Duality of humanity" appeared. JOKER repeated "Duality of humanity" syllable by syllable at the commander's request, and then the commander's behavior suddenly became very different from the previous one. At this time, the lime-sprayed dead man's pit was no longer visible behind their figures. , Everything ended in a hustle and bustle and two people saluting each other. I have to say that the strong feeling of hearing the phrase "Duality of humanity" is no less than the "institionalize" that Morgan Freeman said quietly in "Shawshank's Salvation". I cannot say exactly the huge entities behind these two words, but they awaken people like a basin of water.

Then through JOKER's crazy shooting when the newspaper base was attacked, Vietnamese prostitutes, and the shocking scene of PYLE collapse and self collapse. I want to say that I prefer the few clips of the hell instructor leading the soldiers while training and singing. Their lyrics are the only thing that makes me feel extremely relaxed in this movie, hehe, even with a strong punk taste, I laughed when I watched it. How to say it, like the wonderful music and dance that Quentin put on before MR BLONDE cut his ears in "Falling Water Dog", people slowly accept the cruel reality of the next step, and can smoothly and bravely follow the movie. Go down. Although I can’t remember the specific content of those lyrics, ESKIMO PUSSY, etc., when I watched it, I really couldn’t help but laugh. However, the soldiers on the screen did not follow me like JOKER and me biting the cheek gang. Synchronized, they dare not laugh, or they can't laugh.

In the fourth segment, back to the beginning of the film, Dabing shaved his head. The barber was expressionless, wrapped the extra cord of the electric razor around his forearm, and shaved the soldiers' heads without following any rules. This is the cruelest and bloodiest part of this classic Vietnam War movie, and it is still the case in retrospect. I feel that from now on, all the things that were born with inertia to accept have disappeared. Absolute morality, absolute humanity, absolute hatred and love no longer exist. From those scattered hairs, the things you can pick up are the last fairy tales of life. However, like the hope in Pandora's Box, they are destined to die from the beginning. Recalling the scene of the scattered hair, I saw the completely contradictory words COWBOY said to the interview, and saw the courageous curse that the devil instructor roared during the first training of the recruits.

It may be far-fetched, but I would rather say that Lao Ku’s film is not a war movie, what he said is still life. Life is war. Every day, the days you live in a muddle-headed, diligent and diligent way are all wars.
In such a world, I don't sympathize with PYLE, who committed suicide. He is too fragile to adapt, so his ending can only be death.
This is just an ordinary world placed under a magnified haha ​​mirror. It’s just an exaggeration. If you don’t fight, you escape, your body is not strong enough, and your nerves are not strong enough, then you can only collapse yourself heroically, no one will sympathize with you, life The most successful ones will always be those JOKERs. Sometimes they will lend a hand to you. They will tell others some stories about you, but in the end they will still wave the soap in the towel and hit you with everyone. However, in the end, they were alive.

The devil instructor said these words: 1. "Here at my place, everyone is equally worthless, unless u pass this training, ura piece of shit."
2." If u die, u go to a world of shit, cuz no marines could die without the command of their commanders."

Finally, I returned to the eyes of the female Vietnamese sniper. From there, I saw something called respect.
This world is already the world with the hair scattered on the ground. Those of us have already been put in the training camp. Unless we live and survive, there will be no respect or Mickey Mouse.
Participating in war is the only choice. War is the representative of the best life, and life is the best ridiculous representative. Take your all-metal shell bullet to kill your enemies. Of course, you can also wear the "peace" badge at the same time. Obviously, this pair of contradictions is no longer a contradiction in the huge contradiction. Everything is possible only when you are alive.

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Full Metal Jacket quotes

  • Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [calling out to platoon] Left shoulder, hut!

    [Pyle accidentally puts his rifle on his right shoulder, then corrects quickly, but not before Hartman sees it. He walks up on him]

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Pyle, what are you trying to do to my beloved Corps?

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, I don't know, sir!

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You are dumb, Private Pyle, but do you expect me to believe that you don't know left from right?

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, no, sir!

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Then you did that on purpose! You wanna be different!

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, no, sir!

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [slaps Pyle hard on the left hand side of his face] What side was that, Private Pyle?

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, left side, sir!

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [shouts] Are you sure, Private Pyle?

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [slaps him hard again, this time on right side of his face, knocking his hat off; shouts] What side was that, Private Pyle?

    Private Gomer Pyle: [nearly in tears] Sir, right side, sir!

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Don't fuck with me again, Pyle! Pick up your fuckin' cover!

    Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!

  • Vietcong Sniper: Shoot... me. Sh-oooot... me...