Hello fellow Hive cinephiles
On this "Monday's Match" I will be bringing to the table one of my favorite movies (I even know part of the lines).
My younger sister recently joined the army, during our conversations she told me about her still short recruit and my mind automatically went to this movie.
Needless to say that I suggested she watched it as well because it was right up her alley.
When she told me she was naming her gun "Charlene", I lost it.
This is what I'm talking about:
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- Title: "Full Metal Jacket"
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Cast: R. Lee Ermey; Vicent D'Onofrio; Matthew Mondine;
- Genre(s): War; Drama;
- Released: 1987
- Runtime: 1h 56m
- Plot: The movie follows soldier Davis (Matthew Modine) during his recruit time eventually being called "Private Joker" by Sargent Hartman (R. Lee Ermey).
For the next two hours, we will see how Hartman recruits his platoon with harsh and abusive methods to turn them into "killing machines" ready to be shipped to Vietnam.
The film is divided into two parts: the recruit and after when "Joker" flies off to Vietnam as a journalist but eventually taking part in the war.
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- My opinion: It's no secret that I'm a die-hard fan of Kubrick's work and this couldn't be different.
Very much like any of his other movies, Stanley has his intake and vision of things that not always pleases the audience.
But from what I've seen this ain't one of the most scandalous ones.
With his very own twisted humor, he gives the watcher the real recruit feel (more real only if you run around your living room jumping over the couches) and brings you along as the character development takes place.
As mentioned above, we also have Stanley's intake on the Vietnamese war, which has been (as any other movie) a point of disagreement.
The movie is banned from Vietnam because they don't like the way the war was portrayed.
With all this I reached to an uncle that fought in the Vietnam war to ask for his opinion and even though he doesn't speak much about it when I asked about the veracity of the Vietnamese war in the movie the answer I got was "Yeah, to put it lightly."
So I truly believe this is a movie that everyone should see at least once, for the humor, his very well-known symmetry aesthetic, and above all being cult.
Up to this day, I watch advertisements on TV using Sargent Hartman as a reference.
Has anyone watched it?