A little bit of fun for a Friday afternoon.
One of my favourite movies is Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, from 1987.
Critics have made the reasonably accurate point that while there are some great scenes from the movie the overall plot drags a little. One critic at the time noted (WARNING: plot spoiler ahead) that the James Bond movie of the same year, The Living Daylights, got straight to the same point – dealing with a female sniper – right at the start rather than trying to make such a big moral deal of it.
But the latter spoke to the sensibilities of the generation of Kubrick and the Baby Boomers rather than the more jaded and cynical views of later generations, for whom the idea of female snipers as both protagonists and victims was “meh”!
In any case, the opening scene of Jacket is stunningly memorable…
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