Another Kubrick masterpiece...

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2014)

Kubrick has always been a genius, in my opinion, and Full Metal Jacket is no exception. Depicturing the duality of man; it's lust for peace, while idealizing killing, is simply superb. Kubrick shows a strong side of delivering a new perception on the genre, the war movie genre. Kubrick's focus on the mind of the soldiers, in particular Joker, has a depth that i have not seen before in the genre. It is worth noticing that Kubrick uses very little actual gunfights and very few people being killed. This leaves room to show the mental demise of the soldiers, in stead of the physical. This is why Full Metal Jacket is a totally new take on the war-movie genre. The movie also stands out in it's use of humor and strange choice of music, like "Surfin' Bird".
This movie is a masterpiece, and it remains one of the strongest war-movies of all time. Watch is.