I’m not sure what this is supposed to be considering it being a Kubrick film (hey I just answered my own question [jk, my question is rhetorical]). The first half is just mindless yelling and a bunch of kids training at the marine corps narrated by a lifeless white guy (it’s alright, but lacks any memorable substance). The background skies were nice though, it’s as if Kubrick has total control over the clouds and winds. The second half seems like a typical dispensable war film, but I’m thankful for it not being completely draggy. Some of it just felt unrealistic like soldiers sitting on their beds not doing anything as if they know their being filmed, or how commanders speak to the soldiers (never joined the army, but cummon), the cameraman who films the soldiers lying down and they magically know what to say on the spot… some of it felt realistic like when the Vietnamese Army attacked their base and Private Whoever (notice how forgettable the characters are) said: “I hope they just messing with us. I ain’t ready for this stuff,” I totally got a sense of how he felt facing such a foreign scary moment he’s been preparing for for a while, or when those two soldiers were getting shot by the sniper (their facial expressions are kinda terrifying).

The thing I loved outta all this was the exchange between Joker and Animal Mother (yes, I used an external source to find their names)… they throw each other insults that don’t really seem like insults to me but it was really fun to watch their confidence and their friends ooo’ing and laughing. Things don’t have to make sense to be amusing.