Did you like this new format? What film would you like me to analyse next? I am between Braveheart and Django Unchained... let me know what you think!

Brilliant stuff. As far as the Mickey Mouse ending scene, I do remember that the Drill Instructor said "this ain't no Mickey Mouse bs" or something right before Pyle shot him in the first half.

Very interesting, very well edited! There are two things I would comment: 1. The decision to fight the Nazis was in all nations an economic one. They all knew the reports and observations coming out of Germany from very early on. But the governments hoped things would resolve themselves or in local wars. Only when the wars started to threaten national economies and only at the last moment nations were willing to interfere. This "liberation" narrative was the way it was sold to the civilian population and the soldiers. There is a reason it says (in Yad Vashem?) "And the world stood by in silence". 2. There's a meta-meta-level to this: Most of these films are American. And they have influenced the expectations of many cultures how anti-war films should be like. I don't know many other anti war films. I have seen some Japanese, French and German ones. They seem different to me and focus on different aspects. But I really don't know much about this. Thank you very much!

I’m a pacifist and I hate war movies. But I like to watch commentary on war movies so I can know what they’re about without having to watch them. I agree with everything you’ve said in this video and also in your comment section.

Doing a work right now about the movie. Have seen a lot of analyses, but this one is the best yet. Congrats.

Such a awesome video! You are one the few youtuber who has least views and subscribers but makes solid contents! I went here because i saw you in Krant's subscribe list

I remember watching full metal jacket growing up. When i graduated highschool i enlisted in the Marines. Actually going through bootcamp at PI felt like a dream.

Such a awesome video!

I need to correct you on one minor point- soldiers in WW2 were not trained the same way. After WW2 the US Army studied the behaviours of soldiers in combat and one of the findings was that it was very common for combat infantrymen to avoid killing enemy soldiers. The US military changed its training doctrine to instill a stronger killer instinct in its recruits. One thing that the US military can take credit for is that they are very good at understanding the sciences of human behaviour.

You ought to look at some of the Black Mirror episodes to dissect. Such as San Junipero, White Bear, 15 Million Merits & Nose Dive. One movie that I think would be fun to bd is Snowpiercer.

Great video on this masterpiece of a war film.

Well done. Thank you.

Absolutely brilliant analysis!!!

Thanks for this analysis! You have a beautiful voice!

I really loved your perspective on Full Metal Jacket. Right on the money. This is the door gunner Tim Colceri. I was a Marine at that time and served thirteen months fighting in DaNang Viet Nam. Boot camp was exactly what you said they did to get us to survive. You did a great job explaining everything. We were doing what we were told and those political choices were wrong and it was hard to have 50percent of the country saying “kill those commie bastards” to what the hell are you doing there? And you felt it being there. Anyway I was impressed with your interpretation. Now get up and go GET SOME! Lol

Great stuff, even though I already shared your view. It's too easy to sum up the film with a pat "dehumanisation" and move on. There's more to it, as you demonstrate. My response to Full Metal Jacket is invigoratingly complicated. I laugh hysterically at Sgt Hartman's insults while finding what he's doing repellent. And the boot camp section is so strong I always find the second section less compelling, even to the extent of stopping at the end of the first section without watching the rest. But I'm keen to watch it again after having seen your video.

I'm really glad I watched this movie before heading off to boot camp in 2005 for the army. I did go off to Iraq in 2009-2010. Luckily I was on base the entire time as I was national guard, and part of a maintenance company or otherwise ordinance. I didn't really see or experience any conflict or combat, but I was there. I see a lot of similarities between this films coverage of boot camp as well as the aspects of war. What the media or Hollywood fails to cover about the military in general is that not all military members do end up killing or any other violent acts such as rape etc. Hence the negative stereotypes and stigma held against military members. It's basically terrible what other people say of us, despite their ignorance of our actual actions. It's basically why I'm a recluse, and avoid people, among countless other reasons. And despite no matter how well I try to articulate my position or experience it will be misinterpreted and misunderstood by idiots. Just like how a lot of Stanley Kubrick films are often misinterpreted or misunderstood. Not just Full Metal Jacket but also, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shinning, and the others.

The actor that played the helicopter door gunner was originally slated to play the drill sergeant In the first half. R. Lee Ermey was hired a technical advisor but after Kubrick spent some time with him he made the change. Best decision he made.

Going into Vietnam was far more righteous than WW2! Especially in the minds of those that were sent. Rightly or wrongly, the fear of Communism was far worse and for far longer than National Socialism, of which our grandfathers had next to no knowledge of until they returned from defeating it. A cursory look at politics of the US in the 50's and early 60's will show you this. Psychologically it was an extension of the war in Korea. Just read a handful of accounts of US soldiers in Nam and you can understand exactly why women and children were killed.. They were also quite often combatants. J

Yep. That seems roughly correct to me.

"The stakes are much higher" Lolololol

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The anti imperialism conclusion has always seem too narrow for me, this is because the final conflict has nothing to do with imperialism, the USA or vietnam; yes, those are the settings but people give more weight to the setting of the war than the teachings in the boot camp, which is weird because the movie is gonna go full circle and is the boot camp the answer for the meaning of the movie, not the setting. The bootcamp was to create killers, but thinking killers, not drones, and to prepare soldiers to the harship of the war. On the finally conflict both of these issues are resolved, that soldiers get killed by the harship of the war (boobytrap + sniper) and that they will inevitable become drones to the war (micky mouse song). But not only that, Kubrik also wanted to show that those who become the drones, die as drones. And this is something Kubrik couldn't add in the movie, but on his original script there is a last scene with joker grave and his parents talking about his dreams and goals. Basically my struggle with the imperialistic conclusion is that it divide the movie in 2 different movies, it doesn't consider the events on the bootcamp to analyze the war, when it is just one movie, and the war make literall call backs to the bootcamp. Showing that the harship of war was real, that the enemy was gonna exploit their weaknesses, that thinking was more important than discipline, and that soldiers are the product of war and not the product of the military (as they become soldiers at the end).

It is an anti war movie, but in terms of humans in war. Not in terms of America at war, which was something Kubrick didn't focus on. Calling it anti imperialist is a deliberate interpretation that disregards director's own words.

Your channel has opened my eyes to how unintentionally sexist and misogynistic my environment and upbringing has made me. I was genuinely surprised at the quality, depth, and sheer intelligence/astuteness of your content, and the more I thought about it, I realized that my surprise was almost entirely due to your gender, and how I have been conditioned to believe women like you are the exception, rather than the rule. But that's wrong af, and I feel bad for the fact that I think that way.

How can anyone come away from Full Metal Jacket and see it as anything other than an "Anti-war film"?

No offense but you don't realize how biased this movie is : - Americans were part of a coalition that included South Koreans and Australians to name a few; - The NVA was supported by the USSR which had its own "imperialistic" agenda; - After the Western coalition left, 1.5 million south Vietnamese died due to purges and erroneous policies. Kubrick was a visual genius but, just like most lefties, he was a "petit bourgeois" incapable of nuance.

This is probably my favorite Vietnam movie. In fact I agree how you broke this down into two separate stories. As far as the racist slurs (and whatnot), that's simply an accurate portrayal of how things were 50 years ago. Once SJW snowflakes start editing these movies, then they are rewriting history. Next thing you know they will start removing the holocaust scenes from Schindlers List, or deleting scenes of racial violence from Roots. A lot a movie now edit out homophobic slurs, scenes a sexual assult, or politically incorrect comments. What SJW's fail to understand is that there's a difference between fiction & reality. Once you "sanitize" movies, you're editing art.

NOTE: It's the _Allied_ military campaign in World War II. Please get your historical nomenclature correct. The USA was one of several nations allied against the Axis of Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo. It was never 'America stands alone'.

I think you gave it a good attempt.

I think your thesis gets rather muddled.

No, the USA did not join the war to help against the nazis😂

Bullshit! I took many classes on the social construction of propaganda US war movies during my college years. Even the best of them depend on pentagon approval, especially if military equipment and logistical support are needed. In the end, it doesn't matter how "progressive" or "antiwar" a movie is sold to the public. Two things are always mandated: one that movies entertain for profit, and, that movies manufacture conscent for forever multy-billion unnecessary wars.

lol cope

I do believe it's an anti imperialism film. Do not believe however that America during WW2 was not imperialistic. After all, when did American imperialism really start if not then? Remember how Germany was geopolitically divided after WW2 and one part of it was given to Americans, making them an occupying force in Germany for decades. Moreover, In the 20th century NO war was fought WITHIN American territory. That gives you a hint as to who were/are always the occupiers, invaders, and imperialists in the picture. And anyway, in any true sense, any anti war film is by definition an anti imperialist film because most kinds of imperialism during the 20th century were enforced by war.

Clearly the person who made this is someone who has never served in the military, been in a war zone, nor has a solid grasp of history--especially of the Vietnam War. She does have a basic understanding of boot camp though calling it brainwashing is ridiculous and uninformed.

you're not fit to analyze movies