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Full Metal Jacket begins at Parris Island for one platoon's first day of recruit training. We meet
Sergeant Hartman (Lee Ermey), the senior drill instructor, and several privates he decides to pick
out and nickname: Joker (Matthew Modine), Cowboy (Arliss Howard), and Gomer Pyle (Vince D'Onofrio).
This initial nicknaming symbolizes the Corps' method of breaking down average men and rebuilding
them as killers, removing their born identity. The most notable nickname is D'Onofrio's character,
an overweight recruit who is on Hartman's bad side from the very beginning. Much of the boot camp
scenes focus on Pyle's struggle to make it under Hartman, leading to a descent into insanity and
an eventual showdown with the drill instructor. This conflict is the most well done part of the
movie in terms of a coherent story, but unfortunately, it ends with the end of boot camp and the
new Marines' shipment to Vietnam.
At this point, the film is carried by its cinematography, though even that becomes repetitious in
the end. The problem is, as Roger Ebert points out, that it becomes a series of short stories,
all with beginnings, yet very few with middles or ends. There is a sexual tension played out with
two prostitute scenes, but the scenes are set next to other scenes with very different themes. Joker,
who becomes a combat correspondent, decides to pay for sex in one scene and is seen arguing his distaste
in for false reporting in the next one.
This incoherence stays for the rest of the film, but fortunately, Kubrick's intentions remain clear,
and he manages to convey the distasteful irony between the desire for combat and the reality of war.
Joker voices his urge several times to "get in the shit," yet when he finally does, his old buddy
Cowboy is killed by a sniper's bullet. The final combat sequence is a captivating realization of fear,
when Joker is almost killed, culminating in a rite of passage when he must put a bullet in the head
of the sniper who killed Cowboy.
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Starring ... |
Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey,
Ngoc Le, Arliss Howard
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producers: Stanley Kubrick & Jan Harlan
Year Released - June 1987
Length - 116 minutes
Music Composer: Vivian Kubrick
Movie Distributed by Warner Brothers
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