His entire character is full of struggle through his differing sides of duality.
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Obviously the famous scene with the "born to kill" writing on Joker's helmet gets called out by the Colonel, and he says "the duality of man, sir." But there are many things in this movie that point at duality, especially with Joker. I think the movie revolves around duality. Personally I think it's Kubrick's best directed product. Technically it was one of the best war movies I've ever seen, the set-ups, the art direction, all that were perfectly done. It was my first time seeing the movie too. The film ended a few minutes later, but we all knew what happened finally, the US government paused their activities in the country, pulled back their troops (Hartman being killed) and left Vietnam behind in worse state than before their arrivals (Pyle killing himself).Ĭorrect me if I'm wrong but that was what I thought out after spending a few minutes looking at the credits. Near the end when the sniper was on the ground we saw again that Joker was facing another similar situation to the one with Pyle: he had to join in the mentality of the men surrounding him and give up on saving her, the sniper, pick a dominant side in the duality. As the war went on the North Vietnamese side started equipping themself better against US soldiers, started winning more, and in the film its second half was set around the time of the Tet Offensive. when in fact the initial objective was presumably just to prevent communism from spreading farther to the South. Now in the war, the US government told their soldiers that they were fighting for freedom, for the sake of the Vietnam country and justice, that they planned to fix it up with their involvements. After that Pyle got better, especially at shooting, and almost started a revenge by killing Hartman before killing himself instead of Joker. At one point Hartman told the guys that they would receive alternative punishments every time Pyle made a mistake, so eventually they started planning on "re-educating" him, a beat up even Joker - who was Pyle's leader and close with him - were obliged, or rather forced and encouraged to join in because the general mentality of the majority then was that the act was needed for him to avoid more mistakes thus not causing more troubles for the guys - cowboy said "this is just the beginning" or something like that at the end of it. In the first half of the film Pyle was trained, corrected and instructed to the extreme, or to put it bluntly in social terms, bullied throughout, due to him not having enough qualities to be considered a potential marine.
I think Full Metal Jacket was Kubrick's way of comparing "bullying", an act of bullying and its consequences to the whole situation of the Vietnam war.
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