1987 war movie
Rating: 16/20
Plot: Vietnam stuff.
Not my favorite Kubrick film, but I do like the connections it makes between the need of man (as in, not woman) to kill and the similar need to engage in coitus with women or jelly doughnuts. It's difficult for me to connect the two distinct parts of this one--the boot camp stuff made absolutely electric by the Lee Ermey performance and Joker's continued journey while in Vietnam. There's an interesting blend of cinematic artificiality and an almost documentary-like objective voice that probably shouldn't work as well as it does. The cast is great, especially Modine who is just perfect as this guy who was "born to kill" but also longs for peace.
You have to love any movie that starts with "grabastic pieces of amphibian shits" etc. and end with the Mickey Mouse Club theme song.
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