The first half of "Full Metal Shell" is based on the perspective of group portraits to portray how a group of young people lose their humanity and become murderous machines under the training of the devil instructor; in the second half, the protagonist "the clown" gradually recovers during the war. human nature. The film spans from joining the army to killing, an ordinary soldier's psychological journey at different stages in the war. It is regarded as another excellent film describing the Vietnam War after "The Vietnam War Deer Hunter", "Apocalypse Now" and "Forward Khmer".
Director Stanley Kubrick reproduced the cruelty of war with real footage. Although there were countless soldiers who fell to the ground and died, there was nothing more that gave people the cruel impression of the war than the first sudden gunshot in extreme silence
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The Vietnam and Vietnam wars in the film are just an example for the audience to accept and think about. For every war and every soldier, this film has its universality. This way of proposition with ultimate thinking is an obvious sign of Kubrick's mid- and late-stage works. This is also the pursuit of an artist who is not satisfied with superficial expressions of surface problems. It will certainly lead the film to develop into a broader artistic space and make it have the historical value of all mankind.
