I admit that my reasons for not wanting to hate Harman are very pale and cannot stand scrutiny. Or can it be said that I lack moral tendencies? !
Harman ridiculed everything: his soldiers, the American government, the hostile Communist Party, and even God. He gave his soldiers a variety of nicknames: the upright and kind clown, the obtusely fat Pyle, the black snowball, the cowboy from Texas... He sarcastically satirized his soldiers, and beat them brutally at every turn, and It is certain that he is a thorough Marshallist. If judged by ordinary people's notions of right and wrong, Haman should be a tyrant. It is really frustrating to say that Harman is really undesirable. Well, let’s suppose that if the character of Haman disappears in the recruit training life in Bali, it is really difficult for me to accept that kind of lackluster story state. Not only does he make the movie itself appear full and full, but the point is that he is the promoter of the "toilet murder". If nonsense can also be regarded as desirable, then Harman can be said to be extremely talented, but in fact, what really fascinates me is the kind of enlightenment attached to his words and deeds. It should be said that he is a guy with unpredictable intentions, a bit " The taste of Taylor in Fight.Club.
I don't want to blame Harman for Pyle's death, and of course I would not ignorantly believe that Pyle asked for all this, and social Darwinists think so. If he had to restore things to their true colors, Pyle was tame as a lamb that was only slaughtered before being beaten by his teammates, and then turned into a mentally ill and murderer. But I don’t agree with the statement that Pyle became mentally ill in the end, because he is the killing machine that Haman has been working hard to make. He is Haman’s proud work! It's just that the first object killed by this machine was Haman, and the second was himself.
At a meeting of the editorial board of the "Stars and Stripes", Lieutenant Lockart said in response to a question from the clown: "Here we have to publish two types of news. In the case of drugs and other things, one is the news of fighting and killing. The former is published to win the hearts of the people, and the latter is published to win the war." If it is revealed here that the value of the media is to be blatantly benign or vicious, regardless of right and wrong. In the case of inducement, I am afraid I can't even believe myself, because Kubrick and even a small person are suspected of slapping myself. So I have to mention another detail in the movie. The American soldiers on the Vietnam battlefield have been complaining: We fought and died for the freedom of the Vietnamese people, but they were so stupid that they didn't know how to be grateful. At first I always thought the American soldier who said this was ridiculous, and laughed at him for ignorance. Thinking about it afterwards, it didn't taste much in my heart. I would rather they always believe that they left their conscience and came to Vietnam for a noble slogan, even if they were just being deceived. I really don’t want to look everywhere, shooting at Vietnamese civilians while shouting loudly: "I killed the Viet Cong! Whoever tries to escape is the Viet Cong, and whoever stands firm is the well-trained Viet Cong!" Such a killing machine. Maybe the value of life is worthless when measured by politics, so even if we blame the government and the media for all the crimes, they will certainly not realize it.
The sequence of time is not the only footnote of the film. It should be said that the director's eagerness to present the mental state of the clown is the most important factor in the story itself. I don’t like the clown because he always shows his conscience with impure motives. An American soldier who went to the battlefield in Vietnam with a peace sign, I don’t know what he was doing to advertise? I also clearly remember that the night when Pyle was beaten up by his teammates, he was the most brutal. I guess even if he really sympathized with the weaker Pyle before, it was forced by his own morals, and I doubt he might become the second Haman.
One more thing, the protagonist of this movie is not a person, but an M14 full of magazines, that is, "Full Metal Jacket". Maybe Haman did the same thing for me while materializing the recruits in Bali? The clown's colleague Lightman would vomit violently when he saw the killing machine frantically shooting at Vietnamese civilians on the helicopter, but when he killed the enemy on the front line, how ecstatic it was that I was Lightman—anything People in the war are just an M14 full of magazines.
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