"Full Metal Shell" is a movie about the Vietnam War in 1987, which can be classified as a film reflecting on war or simply anti-war. The film shows the cruelty of war and the contradictions of human behavior in war vividly. These contradictions can be seen through the following plots and examples:
Fat Bill's expression: Bill is a natural smiling face, we occasionally encounter this kind of natural smiling face in life, but the joyful expression is contradictory to the identity of the killing machine, so when Bill is suffering from self-destruction When there was a fierce light before the destruction and "Full metal jacket" was said, the contrast between the tension before the killing and that expression was enough to suffocate the viewer;
The contradiction of the protagonist, the clown: The "Born to kill" on the clown's helmet and the peace badge on the chest are a pair of contradictions. From the perspective of the audience, the clown is always a person who has not completely turned into a war machine. When hatred is the first condition of war At the time, the clown retained considerable rationality and ego. He dared to question the instructor loudly in the training camp. The friendship with the brothers in the training camp on the battlefield and the last shot against the enemy were all manifestations of his own existence. Obviously, the film creators treated the clown. This role is positive;
The comparison between some of the comrades in the ending and the enemy after being shot: This should be viewed from two aspects, one is the feelings of the people in the play, and the other is the feelings of the audience. The success of the film may lie in this. The sacrifice of a comrade-in-arms must arouse the desire for revenge, and when the enemy who killed the comrade-in-arms is wounded and fell to the ground, whether to make up a shot becomes a difficult choice-the last bullet is obviously It is humane; for the audience, the process of injury to death between the enemy and us in the battle gives people almost the same feeling, the same sympathy and intolerance, and finally we thoroughly feel the cruelty of the war.
Perhaps the most interesting contrast of the film comes from the soldiers' chanting military anthem-the lyrics in the first half of the training camp are full of dirty language and hatred, but in the last scene of the film, the lyrics in the chorus are about Mickey Mouse.
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