kubrick

When I was watching Full Metal Jacket for the first time I was at my brother's apartment. He told me that this was a "sick movie." Stanley Kubrick's movies have never ceased to surprise me in the past so I was all for it. I also saw Clockwork Orange with my brother. Kubrick seems to have a way of making social commentary in his films in a non-discreet manner. He tackled the mental challenges that the soldiors faced by showing those stuggles. In Clockwork Orange he tackled gang violence and sex by showing just that. I think that Kubrick's first love of photography is evident in his films by the artistic and deliberate camera angles and close up shots of his characters. Kubrick is not afraid of controversy. His films radiate with sex, violence, and gore. In Full Metal Jacket, it was necessary to show the deep emotions of his characters to get the full effect of the Vietnam war had on these men in the marines. In Clockwork Orange, his message would not have been near as strong without the graphic scenes of rape and sex and violence. Like the main character of Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick saw the war in the eyes of a photographer. He saw the images of the war that portrayed the feelings that were here in America. He captured the irony in having a message written on a helmet "born to kill" with a necklace of a peace sign. This, I think, was pointing out the confusion that Lot 49 pointed out.