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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Film
DirectorStanley Kubrick
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Characters
  • The character of Private Pyle and his bodily and mental breakdown → The Abject
Objects & symbols
  • Private Joker's helmet, adorned with a peace symbol and the words "Born to Kill"
Form & technique
  • The film's two-part (diptych) structure
  • The overall film narrative and its conventions → Genre Revisionism
  • The use of popular music on the soundtrack → Anempathetic Sound
  • The film's narrative alterations from the source novel, The Short-Timers → Fidelity Criticism
Tropes
  • The repetitive, profane language of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman → The Soft Arm of the Law
  • The climactic confrontation with the female Vietnamese sniper
  • The soldiers' adoption of military language, posture, and identity → The Performed Self
  • Kubrick's use of symmetrical composition and forward-moving tracking shots → The Gaze (Le Regard)
  • The act of looking, especially Joker's gaze, throughout the film → The Pleasures of Looking
  • The relationship between Gunnery Sgt. Hartman and Private Pyle

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