How are you twisted?

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2020)

"Born to kill" or "human nature is good" are not all of a person's instincts. This is the contradiction of people, and also the two sides of everything in the world.
From entering the boot camp to writing the news in the post-war base area, the clown actually reflects the human nature of the environment. At the beginning of his body, he openly contradicted the drillmaster's words, and even got some recognition. When people around him couldn't teach "fat pie" well, he took over the task and kept the other side in good order.
But it is here that the virulence of the story suddenly becomes apparent. The joker didn't stop the new recruits from destroying the party. Instead, he joined the group. To the joker himself, this may be interpreted as an outburst of repression. As an ordinary person, it is perfectly normal to consciously or unconsciously suppress their own nature in the environment, in this particular occasion has a proper release. But after, it will become his nightmare.
That's when fat pie changed. Mumbling, horrible eyes, quick action. But no one expected the final outburst. It is said that the suicide scene was supposed to take place in the dormitory, but kubrick changed it to a toilet. This kind of sudden in enclosed and secluded place can show a chilling effect especially, let alone specially chose white. White, which we have always thought of as the color of solemnity, purity and equality, became the spokesman of extreme violence in kubrick. Think of alex's clockwork orange, the milk he was drinking, and his tightly wrapped coat.
To say that perry was a victim of the pre-war system is not entirely true. The relentless routine required no warmth, but a killing machine, an environment in which everyone was at risk and had no time to look around, and in an era when you couldn't expect redemption from anyone else, perry's initial dullness held everyone back. Perry eventually killed hartman, but it wasn't a revolt. Instead, there was deep confusion. Then he turned the abb's cruel, piercing eyes, and turned them hollow, and blew his head open. This section, kubrick's treatment is clean, transparent, with a cold look on. In contrast to the first half of the recruit training in the lively opening and the irony of mockery.
The recruits went to war, and the joker became one of the war correspondents. There is no war here, but there is much reflection on the Vietnam war, which is especially represented by the clown. All he saw was a farce directed and staged by the United States to prove its ability, but it also had its own contradictions: he wanted to go to the front, and he wanted to win, even though he knew it was impossible, and the "no way to win." As he put it, every human being is "born to kill," and even a dull man like perry knows how to pull the trigger to subdue his instructor, whom he never dares to disobey. On the other side is the desire of the heart to do good. I'm not an expert on humans, and I don't know what instinct is, but privately I think we should have both sides, depending on which side overpowers which one at the critical moment.
The final ironic moment came when a group of American soldiers broke through to find the sniper who had fired at them, only to discover that it was a young Vietnamese girl. This is a satire on hegemonic policy and power, and a lament for war - no one has a self any more, just a state's war machine. The joker raises his gun and still ends up with a girl who is better than dead. You can understand it as a victory for the human side in his body, but the sneer of a peary in the toilet in his mind will be his lifelong nightmare. Is the war has long been obliterated by the human nature, by the system seriously distorted under the brainwashed people, even if there was a brief recovery, but how?