As far as the name of the movie is concerned, Full Metal Jacket, the domestic translation is "Full Metal Jacket". At first glance, it looks like a science fiction movie, reminiscent of an iron robot, but it is not easily related to war.
In the movie, the Full Metal Jacket is also mentioned, from Lena's mouth, it refers to the "copper shell bullet".
The first half of the film takes the Vietnam War as the background, and unfolds with the memories of the clown joker, the experience of entering the Marine Corps training.
The full of swear words that almost grabbed the screen propped up the whole story, and also showed the "scent of mouth" of the Marine Corps commander to the fullest. In this section of the story, Reiner is insulted as if he had not experienced the war. The victims reminded me of the military training in my school days. The instructors were harsh and severe to us, and the humiliation and corporal punishment from time to time made us complain. Maybe everyone who has experienced this kind of experience once had such an idea in his heart, that is, The instructor gave him a violent beating, and in darker words, beat him to death. However, with the passage of time, our hatred gradually disappeared, replaced by reluctance to the instructor.
This is the Stockholm syndrome.
(Stockholm syndrome, namely Stockholm syndrome, Stockholm effect, also known as Stockholm syndrome or hostage complex or hostage syndrome, refers to a complex in which victims of crime have feelings for the offender, and even help the offender in turn. This Emotions cause the victim to have a good impression of, rely on the perpetrator, and even assist the perpetrator. The hostages will have a psychological dependence on the hijacker. Their life and death control is in the hands of the hijacker, and the hijacker lets them survive, and they will Very grateful. They share the fate of the hijacker, regard the hijacker’s future as their own, and the hijacker’s safety as their own safety. Source: Baidu entry)
As far as the movie is concerned, across the screen, my state of mind even began to change from the initial understanding and respect for the Marine Corps commander’s disgust. Of course, the drama attached to the movie itself has a certain influence, and it also benefits from the solid narrative skills of the movie. And dialogue.
Kubrick used all sorts of poems to prop up this plot, even impeccable, but are they just for funny and black humor? Of course, there is nothing to say about the training of the army. The military style and a serious and orderly environment are naturally indispensable. As for the officer’s attitude towards poor Reiner, Reiner’s final various “normal” performances also herald the imminent welcome. It's not normal.
Since Kubrick used Leiner's "Full Metal Jacket" as the name of the movie, it must have meant something. For this part of the plot, it seems to be a humiliating accusation for those “Leiner”. On the other hand, it is an all-round complaint against the Vietnam War. If you contact the plot behind, you can also see that Kubrick wanted to show people that the Vietnam War not only caused the local life to be charred, but also for the participants, as small as every soldier or even a soldier. The civilians who weren't also had a great impact.
The movie can be roughly divided into three acts, the Marine Corps training, the clown's reporter experience, and the gun battle.
The first act ends with Reiner drinking bombs, and the scene suddenly shifts from the blood-spattered toilet wall to the beginning of the second act. The clown and comrades in arms are easily bargaining with Vietnamese prostitutes, and the music is also extremely abruptly changed from heaviness to briskness. If you have to find something in common with the first act, it is still endless swearing.
At the end of the film, the clown and his group suffered the loss of two comrades from the sniper, and finally discovered that the sniper who had killed his two teammates turned out to be a girl. The clown held a gun in his hand. The clown who was clamoring to go to the battlefield to kill faces this injury. The girl disregarded the opposition of her comrades and claimed not to kill her, and the clown's situation here is close to a dilemma.
On the one hand, it is to avenge the two dead comrades, on the other hand, it is to kill the girl in front of her who should have been in her blooming years and should not have appeared here as a sniper. To say that the trained soldiers are all hard-hearted killings without blinking and exaggerating, and the other soldiers who seem to be unsympathetic on the surface also unconsciously expressed their regrets with a swear word:
She can never have sex anymore.
In the second half, I watched it with doubts. From the first act belonged to the clown’s memories of the past, and my own monologue let us know that this was a feeling of past experience, but in the third act, the monologue was gone. The development of the movie's plot has also blurred the definition of reality and memory. Is this still in the memories of the clown or the reality experienced after the memories of the clown?
Why do you think so? If it is the former, then the emotional color attached to the clown’s memories of the Marine Corps training plot in the first act includes his experience of killing the girl with his own hands and the resulting cognitive change; if it is the latter, then all When the clown in "reality" recalled this past, his identity was just a war reporter, and his opinion will definitely change after experiencing the incident of the girl sniper. If you recall the original training again, maybe The focus and the place we want to focus on will be very different.
But in the last scene, the truth was revealed. It was all the memories of the clown. In the dim night, the soldiers with rifles walked slowly by, and the movie ended with the clown's monologue.
From the end of the clown shooting the girl on the verge of collapse, to the soldiers' lives under the night, the movie sees the big picture in a small way. The impact of the Vietnam War on a country seems too far away for us, and very alienated, but it focuses on one We can more empathize with people, what he has experienced. In this tragic war, tragedy happened to them, but it didn't stop there. The last shot of the soldiers seemed to tell us that there were many more like them.
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