Great antiwar movie

Rating: 9/10 (24 September 2019)

Many have found this movie consists in 2 parts. Personally, I find there are three distinct parts in this movie, the second one consisting a bridge between the 1st and the 3rd one.
The first part consisted training the soldiers.
The second part consists in discovering Vietnam, its people and the other soldiers.
The third part finally was all about the war, its consequences and its effect on the soldiers.
Full metal jacket is a very intelligent anti-war movie, perhaps a bit too intelligent, as many misunderstood its message. The movie manages to not only condition the trainees but also to condition us the viewers. And that's the power of the movie.
And effectively the first part made us feel for the trainees. They were so strong, organized and funny that one could only feel sympathy for them. By the end of the first part one was expecting this hard training to result in forming some mighty heroes.
However soon enough one sees the result of the dehumanization in the boot camp. Their experiences in Vietnam even accentuate this. At the end of the movie one realises even more that the soldiers not only are brainwashed but that they lost all of their humanity.