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Kubrick  would leave his imprint on the Vietnam film with Full Metal Jacket, based on  the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, albeit right on the heels of  Oliver Stone's north face triclimate Platoon in 1986. For me, as well as many others, this would be  the most frustrating and confounding of all of his films. The reason being that  the film feels like two films that don't quite match.
 One  is an undeniable classic and the other has some excellent moments but doesn't  seem to add up to much. The first and best movie lasts for the opening 45  minutes. The second movie lasts the remaining hour and ten minutes. The first  details the story of a group of marine recruits who undergo basic training on Paris Island.  We see them verbally and physically broken down by their drill instructor  Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R Lee Ermey). The recruits are known only by the  names Hartman gives them and thus so they are anonymous. The only two recruits  that come into any kind of focus are the smart-ass Joker (Matthew Modine) and  the dim-witted Gomer Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio).Pyle's weight and lack of  intelligence makes him the whipping boy for Hartman as well as the squad and it  is painful if not downright horrifying what he is subjected to. Indeed the  film's greatest scenes are between Pyle and Hartman. We see for the first time  in film how young men are systematically broken down and rebuilt as killing machines.  The class graduates and is given their orders for Vietnam. During the last night in  the barracks, a tragedy occurs that will mark the rest of the film.The second  film then shifts to Da Nang  where Joker and a gung ho soldier named Rafter Man have drawn correspondence  duty for the Army newspaper Star and Stripes. The strong focus and grip that  the film has held us in, suddenly is gone and it seems that the narrative has  been thrown out and we are watching random scenes that don't appear to have any  continuity or meaning to them. Joker and Rafter Man are sent to follow the hard  core combat unit "The Lusthogs" which one of Joker's fellow marines  from boot camp, Cowboy (Arliss Howard) belongs to as well as the insane, battle  hungry Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin) north face nuptse vest. Now upon numerous viewings and the benefit  of age, some opinions I had about the film have changed. The first half is an  undisputed masterpiece and the film never really does recover after the boot  camp scenes Cheap North Face Jacket. Ermey paints such a fiercely profane portrait of a drill  instructor that it's easy to see how he filled the position in real life.

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