i am writing this review and i dont really know what to say about Kubrick masterpiece, it is deep, true, crazy, out of limits and contradicted in a logical way. it is absolutely kubricks best film and probably the best war film ever made.
kubrick who has three other war films in his record, comes here with whole new philisophy, trying to understand the human conflict in the concepts of war and peace, good and evil, life and death.
a structural analysis of the film can easily demonstrate that it is divided into two parts, both of them ends with a death; and the two parts are in formal opposition, we see how everything is in perfect order (or trying to be) in the first part, while in the second, everything goes crazy and nothing stays controllable turning the order into absolute chaos.
taking as subject the Vietnam war that cost the US billions of dollars and thousands of lives, Kubrick is trying to show the inhuman strategy the US army follows either in making soldiers, or as in the film: killing machines, taking as in a journey with the newly recruited young men in a marine facility, spending long weeks of hard training and brain washing. or in wars where it does not care about natives lives or their freedom and democracy as much as it cars about the state's reputation and the money entrance.
beneath all that, there is Kubrick's view to modern human being, and the weakness he have in front of establishments, where he loses his freedom and becomes slave to his own creations, leading him to contradictory and fatality
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