Kubrick´s Forgotten Gem

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 1999)

This movie like many others from director Stanley Kubrick, seem to be too enigmatic and metaphoric for the masses, but is a superb film. There´s a comic sense about it, (during the first half on the training, and with Joker at the second half) that makes me think Kubrick had a very sharp sense of humor. This movie, I think it does not want to report Vietnam as Platoon wanted to, it really (as the character Joker said) shows men´s duality, with the Hippie movement confronting the War movement, and men´s own fears and psychological wars. Along with Barry Lyndon, FULL METAL JACKET, seems to be one of the less know Kubrick films. It also seems to be the most different of Kubrick films, but still a GREAT film and one of the Top 5 war movies of ALL TIME.