American director Kubrick, after watching each of his films, there will always be a period of thinking, followed by hesitation about both the film and the real world. This "Full Metal Case" is no exception.
Speaking of the Vietnam War, after watching the "Vietnam War" produced by PBS, I feel that I don’t need to know more about this unjust war, but a movie of a defeated country, especially an anti-war movie that is not long after the end of the war. , A series of movies including Oliver Stone's "Field Platoon" still show the directors' thinking about the latest major war.
Ever since President Eisenhower decided to give armed guidance to South Vietnam in 1955, and sent American troops to set up a military advisory group to help the South Vietnamese government resist the unification war carried out by North Vietnam, the United States has plunged headlong into this quagmire. Kennedy and Johnson escalated the war and became During the Cold War in the 1960s, the only hot war in which the United States fully intervened. The American soldiers sent to Vietnam will see the other side of the world. That is the turmoil that the peaceful world on the other side of the ocean cannot feel.
What did 600,000 young Americans do for this meaningless war? Nearly 60,000 of them left their lives in Vietnam forever, and more than 300,000 were injured. The Vietnam War changed the destiny of some people forever, when their lives became a bet on the turntable.
The American politicians of that generation played with world politics and manipulated the politics of small countries. As a result, the United States fell into self-doubt. The hippie movement of the late 1960s, the anti-war movement, and the fear of confrontation with the Soviet Union all had a great influence. Americans of the baby boom generation, they are living in the greatest era of the United States, everything is positive, the economic level is rising steadily, they have not experienced the baptism of two world wars, the United States’ geographic location makes it bypass the European countries Disputes. That should be an era lacking heroes. The war has been far away from the crowd for too long, so that some people forget the cruel color of the war itself. The blood-stained style is not gentle, and the blood oozing out of the body with the temperature is often beckoning to death.
From the Glory Road to the all-metal shell, Kubrick probably had already felt the ravages of human nature and the evil of war self in the war he had heard of.
The film is adapted from the novel "Short Vacation". A group of recruits receive training before going to the battlefield in Vietnam.
In the recruit barracks, the sudden corporal punishment and harsh treatment by the military instructors wiped out the human nature of the recruits to the greatest extent. The isolated training camp closed the connection between the world and the soldiers. The final result is to squeeze individuals with different personalities into killing machines that obey orders.
According to the narration: What is needed in the army is not robots, but soldiers who can kill.
Recruit Pyle suffered a nervous breakdown in self-doubt and cruel corporal punishment, and completely lost his nature. Ironically, after his psychological change, he was recognized by the instructor for the first time because of his excellent shooting and because it has already Be cruel and ruthless. It is worth mentioning that the instructor’s experimenter is also a retired military officer. He gave director Kubrick a lot of practical suggestions during the filming.
When he shot the instructor, Pyle headed for the end of his life.
Before he went to Vietnam, he was killed by the Vietnam War and stayed in the barracks forever.
Pyle is a typical example of being distorted. The brutal treatment of soldiers by the instructors is an unwritten practice. After Pyle accepted the unkind punishment, his teammates beat Pyle. The only joker who was warm to him also participated. After beating him, Pyle was completely desperate.
In the first 45 minutes, the display of the military camp and the non-emotional environment's alienation effect on people.
How to train a simple and honest fat man into a murderous machine with full of brilliance?
Pyle's death heralded the mental state of everyone after entering Vietnam. The recruits entered Vietnam and the game had just begun.
American soldiers are looking for new fun in this war. One of the great distress in a distant foreign country may be the sexual aspect.
The American recruits go to prostitutes and use physical indulgence to relieve tension.
In the free time between life and death, among the yellow-skinned people, in the paddy fields in Vietnam, and in unintelligible language.
Those Vietnamese people don't seem to be living people. Only in Vietnam can you have so many targets to attack at will.
You are sitting in the UH-1 helicopter, flying in the sky with your teammates, like a god, you do control the most precious thing of these people-life.
Seeing the farmers working in the rice fields in Vietnam, you shoot with a heavy machine gun. You told your teammates that those who saw us ran were the Viet Cong, while those who didn't ran were the well-trained Viet Cong. Women, children, and the elderly are treated indifferently. Is this to comfort oneself or to treat war as a live-action shooting game?
The South Vietnamese do not welcome Americans who come from afar, no matter how friendly they are or how they please these aborigines.
In fact, anyone with a normal mindset and a nation-minded person will not welcome the occupiers of other countries. The South Vietnamese government lacking the US military has no strength to maintain its rule. The military rule of South Vietnam is realized in a puppet regime and wants to maintain itself. The status of Americans.
All this will be a moment of being abandoned.
Joker is a self-contradictory person. Just like the sergeant said, he wears an anti-war peace badge and a born to kill helmet on his head. This is the black humor on the battlefield.
He took care of the recruit Pyle, and also beaten him. I once blamed myself, and I was afraid of facing the little girl's muzzle in the end.
In Vietnam, he wandered around and occasionally drove to buy spring. He maintains his disdain for fake news and wants to understand why the Vietnamese hate these allies who help them resist the invasion of the "evil regime". But when surrounding the sniper, before shooting, he saw that the sniper was a little girl, and the gun instantly jammed. He was shocked and panicked.
Killing is a normal thing on the battlefield. Soldiers can’t help the female sniper who killed their teammates. The last shot of joker on the girl is just a manifestation of the undesirable humanity, according to what the beast said. Leave it alone, or as the girl said: shot me. The filming of American anti-war films is inseparable from the absurd exchange of the enemy and us.
There are very few women in this male group portrait movie. The last North Vietnamese female sniper and two other South Vietnamese prostitutes. What soldiers hate most is the weakness of women in men, and they admire masculinity, so what we see is that the ambush hurts Theirs is not the men's team from North Vietnam, but just a little girl.
The little girl is not a product of the alienation of the war. It is impossible to enlist in the army at such a young age, but in North Vietnam, the entire population is already a soldier. As the South Vietnamese prostitutes are in groups, the meaning of the end of the war has come out.
A nation's war against itself, a nation's unification war, and the United States, who is in charge, is also an outsider in the end. Putting aside the political connection, the two countries separated by the Pacific Ocean should have been in peace. However, intervening in the war in addition to consuming one's own energy, killing one's own young generation, leaving behind ptsd soldiers, and a large amount of military expenditure.
Will anyone really benefit from it?
There are only big arms dealers who provide them with arms.
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