Looking back now, there are more complex thoughts. In the film, Vietnamese prostitutes and American soldiers bargain for a period in the mediation area. Not far away, their land is occupied, their compatriots are massacred, but they murder their souls and sell their bodies. To quote a great man: Others can destroy your body, but only you can destroy your soul. I never shy about being an angry youth, and these scenes especially remind me of the shitty things that happened to the birdmen in our country more than half a century ago.
Both show the unreasonableness of the Vietnam War and the sorrow shared by both sides. Oliver Stone's "Field Platoon" focuses on how war can be irrational, and American soldiers have become crazy and inhuman killing weapons because of war. Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" focuses on abstraction, forming a dramatic tension outside the screen, exploring who to fight for. And Kubrick's "Full Metal Shell" uses cruel scenes and cruel artistic conception, as well as the irrational murderers in the film to brutally destroy people's hearts, so as to express the heartache of all kinds of human atrocities. Granted, the location of the story is nominally Vietnam, but we can find traces of various characters in the film at any time, place and historical stage. Kubrick's persistent cautionary and eloquent attitude, as always, shows his indignation and pain at the madness of human beings.
To borrow the words of a great man again: the Vietnam War is an eternal wound in the history of the United States; and the war is not an eternal wound in the history of the world?
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