Full Metal Jacket By Josh Larson
1. I agree with the review by Josh Larson because the film does show a personal change in Ron Kovic as he goes through the war and also presents a political statement on how the Vietnam war was poorly handled by the government. The subtones of the film that Larson mentions reflect the change in the public view of the war, when Kovic was young, most people were supportive and energetic, like his mother. This feeling is represented by Kovic before he entered the war, shown not only by his willingness to participate but also through his features and personality, as Larson said, Kovic was full of “physicality, violence, victory, and the admiration of women”, after the war, he comes out changed, with both his physicality destroyed and his ability
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I interviewed Ms.Pohan my english teacher, because she was fascinated by war movies and how different wars are depicted and was always fascinated by war movies. She said that her favorite movie based on the Vietnam war was Full Metal Jacket which she watched three times, once in highschool, once in college, and once in her twenties. She described the movie as unsettling with brutal honesty, saying that the movie does not tell you how to feel about what you are watching, creating a mix of tones, from a humorous one to a more serious one. She continued by saying the movie used unsettling music to enhance the confusion and the boredom of the soldiers from the abundance of down time in Vietnam. In addition to the fighting in the war, Full Metal Jacket also included the training camp before the war similar to how the other movies she watched portrayed the war. The things that Ms.Pohan said stayed constant throughout the war films was a questioning of what it meant to be patriotic and what it meant to be heroic, calling out the government, and presenting the war with brutal honesty. Ms.Pohan feels that this portrayal is appropriate and would not portray it differently, especially in not telling how the viewer should feel about the war, letting the viewer decide for
I interviewed Ms.Pohan my english teacher, because she was fascinated by war movies and how different wars are depicted and was always fascinated by war movies. She said that her favorite movie based on the Vietnam war was Full Metal Jacket which she watched three times, once in highschool, once in college, and once in her twenties. She described the movie as unsettling with brutal honesty, saying that the movie does not tell you how to feel about what you are watching, creating a mix of tones, from a humorous one to a more serious one. She continued by saying the movie used unsettling music to enhance the confusion and the boredom of the soldiers from the abundance of down time in Vietnam. In addition to the fighting in the war, Full Metal Jacket also included the training camp before the war similar to how the other movies she watched portrayed the war. The things that Ms.Pohan said stayed constant throughout the war films was a questioning of what it meant to be patriotic and what it meant to be heroic, calling out the government, and presenting the war with brutal honesty. Ms.Pohan feels that this portrayal is appropriate and would not portray it differently, especially in not telling how the viewer should feel about the war, letting the viewer decide for