I thought it was up to what I expect of Kubrick. I like how the troops are all shown to be traumatized children doing horrible shit because all normal emotion has been beaten out of them. You follow a bunch of shitty people and they live up to the bar set by uncle Sam.
What didn't you like? It's been a while, maybe I'm forgetting something awful.
i will guess that the lack of a debate within the film about the nature and reasons of this war, its like the war in vietnam fell out of the sky and that is just the way it is, no questions asked about us foreign policy and imperialistic practices.
so it fits the great long tradition of usian movies of showing that they were dumping bombs on a poor country, but really sad while doing it.
Sorta a shoot and cry thing, I get you. I guess I just assume Kubrick thinks US foreign policy is the work of bloodthirsry morons after Dr. Strangelove, but you're right the characters don't question the war really. Fair point.
I thought it was up to what I expect of Kubrick. I like how the troops are all shown to be traumatized children doing horrible shit because all normal emotion has been beaten out of them. You follow a bunch of shitty people and they live up to the bar set by uncle Sam.
What didn't you like? It's been a while, maybe I'm forgetting something awful.
i will guess that the lack of a debate within the film about the nature and reasons of this war, its like the war in vietnam fell out of the sky and that is just the way it is, no questions asked about us foreign policy and imperialistic practices.
so it fits the great long tradition of usian movies of showing that they were dumping bombs on a poor country, but really sad while doing it.
Sorta a shoot and cry thing, I get you. I guess I just assume Kubrick thinks US foreign policy is the work of bloodthirsry morons after Dr. Strangelove, but you're right the characters don't question the war really. Fair point.