Full Metal Jacket

"Parris Island, 1967. Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman harshly prepares a new group of Marine Corps for combat during basic training. Amongst them are Private Joker, Private Cowboy and the overweight and clumsy Private Gomer Pyle, who is soon a target for Hartman’s demanding fury. Pyle is slowly ostracized from the rest of the group, but the bullying he endures will have serious consequences. By 1968, the group is ready to reach adulthood while serving in Vietnam. Based on Gustav Hasford`s novel The Short-Timers.

The first chapter is again a typical Kubrick ballet of exaggeration in order to highlight a truth – the brainwashing of young men and their abuse in order to turn them into a “weapon of death”. This is a film about all armies and all wars.
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Born in New York City in 1926, Stanley Kubrick is now regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Beginning his career as a professional photographer for Look magazine at the age of seventeen, the job led to the production a series of self-financed short newsreels for movie theaters. His first attempt at making a feature was Fear and Desire (1953), a film he later pulled out of circulation. His feature film career officially began with the film noirs Killer’s Kiss (1953) and The Killing (1955). The latter’s success brought Kubrick to the attention of MGM, where he made his third feature: the WWI film Paths of Glory (1957), with Kirk Douglas. His association with Douglas led to him replacing the initial director of Spartacus (1960), the historical epic where the actor played the title role. After the film’s financial success, Kubrick relocated to England, where he would spend the rest of his life directing films with more artistic freedom, tackling the most diverse of cinematic genres: comedy with Lolita (1962) and Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), science fiction with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971), costume drama with Barry Lyndon (1975), horror with The Shining (1980) and war film with Full Metal Jacket (1987). Kubrick died months before the release of his last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The 37th Mostra is holding a complete retrospective of his work, along with co-publishing Michel Ciment’s book Kubrick with Cosac Naify.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA