Bittersweet unconsciousness

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2011)

Stanley Kubrick shows us here he is as gifted for war movies as he is for horror ones. He depicts in the first part of the film how brains could be crushed and sanitized in order to let just one single idea in the mind : killing. Being a killer, loving a weapon as if it was a woman, dropping down his beliefs... and going crazy.
The second part of the film is like a long follow-up of that madness. In the military camp, the soldiers prepare themselves for a big big joke, and try to disarm their brain in order to be ready for its sinister absurdity.
Anyone who are interested in knowing how humans can do horrible things to defend a small idea they don't believe in, all that in a sort of bittersweet unconsciousness, should like this movie (Kubrick's majesty on top of that)