Review of a Full Metal Jacket Review

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1515226/full_metal_jacket_movie_review.html?cat=40

                I found this to be a pretty decent review of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket.  The author of this review definitely doesn’t focus too much on the plot of the movie and dives right into highlighting the aspects of the style of this film that are so legendary.   The author continues on to compliment Kubrick’s scrupulous attention to detail and his ability to balance all of the events on screen.  I would definitely agree that Kubrick did an excellent job of balancing this movie out, both on the micro and macro levels.  In almost every scene there was usually some incredibly morbid image juxtaposed with some awkwardly hilarious one, highlighting misanthropy and humanity in one frame.  But the two “sections” of the film also balance one another out beautifully, the strict, confined world of Parris Island and the more “anything goes” actual war.  The author of the article pointed out how this contrast ultimately points out the high level of futility that ever characters attempts to prepare for war are met with.  The author also emphasized two key scenes in his review.  He noted the scene where Pyle shoots himself and the one where the little girl is found to be the sniper.  The author of this article focuses primarily on the themes of the film and what we should take away from it starting the review with “Full Metal Jacket is an anti-war film. Full Metal Jacket is a war film,” noting the dualistic nature of a lot of the themes of the film. One does not need to be particularly literate of film lingo to get what this article is trying to say, only when the author discusses how the film ultimately came across does he delve deeper into the film vocabulary dictionary when he says the film has “a high sense of realism, but infused with a surrealistic hyper-quality.”  I would definitely say that this is a good review of the film and would make me want to watch it for sure, aside from the whole it spoiling the movie thing.  But these are the kind of reviews that I like, more so, at least, than the plot driven ones.