Disturbing

Rating: Null/10 (15 October 2004)

Stanley Kubrick makes extremely disturbing, and yet extremely good films; examples of his disturbing movies are "A Clockwork Orange" "The Shining" "Eyes Wide Shut" and the film I am reviewing "Full Metal Jacket". Full Metal Jacket is a two-segmented film; the first segment is basic war training and the second segment takes place in Vietnam itself with former trainee, Joker. Let me just say that the first segment is what makes this film so disturbing. Everything that Sgt. Hartman puts the character Leonard through, and what happens to Leonard towards the end... bone chilling. It's one of the best Vietnam films I have seen. i love war films, especially Vietnam films for some weird reason. Full Metal Jacket compared to other war films is... different. It's kind of surreal, but I wasn't in Vietnam (obviously) , so I can't say if the stuff that happens in this movie veterans can relate to or not. Overall, it's a heavy and disturbing (the best word to describe this film) masterpiece.
10/10