Full Metal Jacket

I think that Full Metal Jacket was made to be an informative movie. The director did a good job of doing this by making it interesting as well as entertaining. I thought that the movie was very shocking. It is hard to know what things are like without actually seeing it. I think that a theme of the movie is the dehumanizing of people during the Vietnam War, and the creation of killers through the Marine Corps. Though the intense training of Marines is done for a reason, it really makes these soldiers less human and more like just pure killers. I think that one of the most intense and shocking images in the movie was the face of Private Pyle near the end of the first half. His eyes looked as if he was demented (obviously he was), and he was no longer the innocent person before training that couldn't even keep a straight face while Sergeant Hartman was yelling at him. The second half was just as shocking when they find the identity of the sniper and the sniper goes from killing to begging for death. Both parts of the movie were meant to show the horrors of the Vietnam War/training camp and how dehumanizing guerrilla warfare can be. Private Joker is forced to get his "first confirmed kill" from a little girl that was in so much pain that she wanted to be killed.