"The" masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (11 April 2007)

Full Metal Jacket is a marvelous and terrible masterpiece that doesn't deals neither with a war nor with war (like Paths of glory does) but with the human being itself. Kubrick put the characters of the film under the microscope lens as he was a mad scientist studying insects; then observes them reacting to the maddest possible situation: the one in which men must kill other men with no reason why. The movie is divided in two parts having each one its own life as they were movements of a symphony that needs different speeds and different rhythms to express all that must be expressed. Even the songs are perfect, above all Paint it black at the very end. In my opinion this is the best film ever.