Compared with hacksaw ridge, if you want to know more about war movies and American marines in war movies, I would like to recommend a new movie, All Metal Jacket, which is recognized as a good movie by celebrities in film history. The film, directed by the famous director stanley kubrick, was filmed in 1987, and tells the story of a group of newly enlisted American marines going to Vietnam.
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The following may involve spoilers.
At the beginning of the film, with the background music of Hello, Vietnam, a group of American youths born in the early twenties or even younger were brutally shaved off by hairdressers. It seems that they are unwilling and unhappy. And this scene seems to indicate that these young people who have just grown up are about to embark on a brand that they may never forget, and the next war will bring unprecedented great changes to their body and mind. From this opening, the film's anti-war stance directly told the audience.
The hero of this film is called XXXX, and the nickname "Clown" is played by XXX. He is a handsome and well-educated young man, and his tall nose and exquisite gold-rimmed glasses show that he seems to be so out of place with the whole US Marine Corps. There is little introduction to the clown's life background in the film. Like others, he had to be drafted into the army because the American authorities were mired in the Vietnam War. If there was no war, he might be a decent college student, completing the academic papers assigned by the college in a library full of academic atmosphere.
Life in the military camp is boring and unbearable. Every day, the characters just train, run, March, and the instructor's hysterical language violence. Different from the romantic military life shown in other war movies, there is no scene where sexy American female nurses and soldiers wearing all-metal jackets frolic together in the military camp, but a more real, cold and inhuman military camp life is shown to the audience. In this group, the soldiers mechanically repeat every day until they are trained to be killing machines that do not hesitate to execute orders.
There is a fat man in this group of recruits, who is often abused by instructors, probably because of his dull talent, poor movements and often lagging behind others in executing orders. The monitor "clown" personally guided the fat man out of kindness and let the audience find that the fat man is not stupid. With the help of the clown monitor, the fat man quickly learned everything and showed a talent beyond everyone in shooting. Just when the audience thought that the fat man might become a soldier king like Xu Sanduo, something happened next. One day, the fat man was discovered by the instructor because he was hiding snacks. This time, the instructor didn't abuse and scold the fat man as before, but corporal punishment was given to all the soldiers, apparently to torture him mentally and make him bear more guilt. Because of this corporal punishment incident, the poor fat man's relationship with everyone has become more alienated. Everyone didn't want to have more contact with the fat man who caused trouble, and even began to bully him collectively in his sleep at night. However, all this also includes the closest person to the fat man in the military camp, the clown monitor, who is also the most vicious and thorough bully of all.
Finally, the day when the recruits graduated, the last day. When the clown was patrolling the room, he suddenly found the fat man hiding in the toilet, fiddling with his M- 14 rifle and all-metal jacket armored bullets. When the clown saw this, he quickly ordered someone to inform the instructor who had already gone to bed. When the instructor arrived, he reprimanded the fat man for his behavior as usual and threatened to lock him up. The fat man did not hesitate to put on the all-metal jacket armored bomb, and the evil bullet instantly sent the hysterical and chattering instructor to hell. After this revenge, the fat man pointed his gun at himself and shot himself. From here on, the first half of the film ends. In the next scene, the trained soldiers went to Vietnam and started a battle that should not be mentioned in American history.
Clowns were assigned to the news department of the war zone to report the whole situation, write newspapers and mobilize for the American war. During the war, the clown faced many things contrary to his usual education, such as American soldiers shooting civilians with machine guns on helicopters and threatening: "Anyone who runs is VC. Anyone who stands still is a well-differentiated VC, that is to say, anyone who runs away from machine guns is the Viet Cong. People who stand up straight and don't run are well-trained and generous Viet Cong. " On the other hand, Vietnam, in the face of the powerful offensive of the US Marine Corps, adopted the tactic of "all the people are soldiers". On a mission with the clown, a Vietnamese sniper secretly killed several American soldiers in an abandoned building. When the clown and his party bypassed the building and approached the sniper, they were surprised to find that the Vietnamese sniper who was skilled in marksmanship and killed people without blinking an eye was actually a young girl. This is probably the most shocking war scene in the whole article. The pure girl and the fierce war are put together, forming a very cruel contrast. The girl was shot and killed by the US military, and the dying expression also filled the whole screen, which made people shudder.
Throughout the film, the word Full Metal Jacket appears in many scenes. In fact, the all-metal jacket is a kind of bullet commonly used by the US military in the Vietnam War, that is, the all-metal armored bullet. This bullet also appears in the film, and there are many bridges related to this bullet. At the same time, it was raining. In war, soldiers are just cold bullets without thoughts and feelings. War not only annihilates humanity, but also makes people crazy. At the end of the film, a group of American marines are marching and singing Mickey Mouse's cheerful March. Mickey Mouse's March is actually a children's song, which was popular in the 1950s and was also the childhood of those soldiers. This group of marines marching with children's songs not only symbolizes that this war is like a child's play, but also symbolizes that the childhood of this group of young soldiers who have just grown up is gradually drifting away in the fight. Although "All Metal Jacket" is an anti-Vietnam War movie, in fact, its concept has surpassed the Vietnam War itself and become a masterpiece of anti-war movies. The so-called "excellent war movies must be anti-war movies" is really a famous saying.