Full Metal Jacket Review
This cinematic masterpiece will be my first movie review on this blog and during "these times" I think it is quite appropriate as a look in to our current society. Quite a stretch you say? Sure, I see your point, it is a Vietnam war movie and centers around a journalist in the Marines. How is it even relevant to today? Well I think a global pandemic could be viewed as a war of sorts and the journalist is of course us as the protagonist looking for a solution to a problem.
The movie is a classic two-parter and shuns the cliche'd three part structure most movies follow. That is my favorite part about the film and I always viewed it as a coming of age film where Joker is in his youth during boot camp and suddenly thrown in to an adult life during his time in Vietnam. The first part of the movie does carry over some themes and characters but it could be split up in to two sections in terms of environment. There could even be two climactic endings to both parts. The first being when Pyle ...