"Full Metal Jacket" (1987) dedicated to the theme of the Vietnam War and presents the adaptation of the novel “The Short-Timers” written by Gustav Hasford. This film traces the fate of 18-year-old rookie Joker who was in training camp for the preparation of the US Marines, and then sent to the front as a military journalist (Ditum, 2012). In "Full Metal Jacket" Kubrick shows that Marine Corps faces a difficult task: how to convince people to neglect their inherent from birth domestic ban on the killing of their own kind. Most easy decision meant an opportunity to "brainwash" the recruits and make them believe that the enemy cannot be considered a person: then it becomes easier to kill, even if somebody is your drill sergeant. Kubrick knew that humanity has to give sufficient quantities of weapons it would kill himself.
"Full Metal Jacket" was an outstanding work which was a vivid metaphor that says "life is so." Metaphors that bind sexuality and war, have repeatedly manifested in "Full Metal Jacket". Cruel and inhuman system is designed to turn the home boys trained in cold-blooded killers. They are preparing for war in Vietnam, where they often have to ask themselves "Is the war is not the hell?", otherwise it is simply impossible to kill every day. Kubrick shows that the soldiers may also be provided in a state of intoxication and a certain joy in the fact that they kill and remain alive, they identified themselves with the role of soldiers, and the rest do not even need a deep understanding of current events.
In this film the audience demonstrates the inhumanity of military training and its contempt for the people to expose the brutality of war and militarism in general. Kubrick gives viewers not solutions, but understanding of the war; he identifies problems, out of which we want to search for all generations to remain human. Kubrick has studied and investigated the counter-idea to a deeper understanding of the human soul. He shows the war as a logical continuation of such essential features of the people, the love for battle and murder, forcing bitterly aware that mankind always does what he wants - so it was for many centuries, is now and will continue for the foreseeable future.
For Kubrick's war in Vietnam is a special case in the history of the world, instead of which could have been any other example of mass inhumanity, of the mechanical work to destroy the people. "Born to kill" is the inscription on the helmets of young Marines that first pass drill wild under the leadership of Sergeant Hartman to Parris Island. The second half of the film strongly urges that in the general massacre of humanoid creatures that are already acting as streamlined and adjusted to each other of the infernal machine, like a bullet, placed in all-metal shell, no one has the right to rely on that will live until dawn or even the next minute. Born to kill automatically converted into dedicated to death.
The new generation of Americans chose non-conformism, individualism, daring experiments, and social justice. Young people loved this film for the courage and anarchic humor, but many considered him a dangerous and destructive. The film can be interpreted as a satire on the Cold War with the anti-war overtones. The main idea was to show Kubrick that war is waged not only in the trenches, but in luxurious offices of the generals, for which a soldier's life is of no value. In our time this film is regularly ranked tops in all the best films and comedies, as well as included in the US National Film Registry as "culturally significant”.
References
Ditum, N. (2012). The Making Of Full Metal Jacket. Film Forum. Retrieved 2 January 2016, from http://nathanditum.com/archive-of-work/the-making-of-full-metal-jacket/
