Full Metal Jacket.

 

I saw Full Metal Jacket.

War movies aren't everyone's cup of tea, but it says a lot about us as humans and the dark nature we need to save our families and our way of living from the counterpart.

In the movie an obese guy couldn't cut it as a soldier. The military training went to far and put him in a 'either-you-or-me' mentality with a disastrous outcome. He was teased because he couldn't be a good soldier.

This makes me think that if he wasn't in the army, he would be a terrific guy otherwise. This says a lot about how cruel the army can be and that it isn't that well organized, he should have gotten a Section 8 the moment they saw that he couldn't function there.

He was a victim of the system.

Another victim of the system would be Animal Mother, the man- made-sociopath by the system. His ruthlessness was not entirely of his own and the system made him something a person shouldn't become.

I think when he came back in society he missed the war, seeing that it was the only thing he could understand as he was raised by his paternal army to be that way. I don't see him as getting a wife and kids after this. Maybe he is a hero for his country that had to embrace nihilism to become this hero.

The ethics here are complicated, we are only a part of a whole here and it seems we are very, very expendable...