Anniversary of the Full Metal Jacket
June 17, 1987 in Beverly Hills, California (USA), the premiere of the film "Full Metal Jacket". Director Stanley Kubrick.
The film received 8 awards and 14 nominations. The film received the greatest favor from the Italian Film Academy. The film received two major nominations for the David di Donatello Prize: as the best foreign film and for the best directing. However, in both nominations, the Stanley Kubrick film lost to Louis Malle and his film "Goodbye Children." And this is absolutely explainable. Moreover, the Italian film academics still noted Stanley Kubrick with his award - for producing.
The Japanese Film Academy also nominated Stanley Kubrick for Best Foreign Film. But here the victory went to another film - "The Last Emperor" by Bernardo Bertolucci. And this is also a completely understandable decision.
But what’s not very explainable, at least for me, is that at home the film received only one nomination for the Oscars and Golden Globes, moreover, in secondary categories. And the British film academics followed the example of their overseas colleagues, nominating Kubrick's film in only two technical categories.
The film received a huge amount of laudatory reviews. According to the Rotten Tomatoes website, 91% of reviews by professional film critics are positive. Most reviews compare, to one degree or another, Kubrick’s film with other American cinema masterpieces on the Vietnam War: “Apocalypse Today” by Francis Ford Coppola, “Platoon” by Oliver Stone and “The Deer Hunter” by Michael Cimino. As a rule, these comparisons do not lead to unambiguous conclusions that some films are better, some worse. And only Roger Ebert, who rated Kubrick’s film with only two and a half stars out of 4 possible, comes to the conclusion that the "Full Metal Jacket", with all its merits, loses against the backdrop of the above mentioned films about the Vietnam War.
The main claims of Ebert to the Kubrick's film consist of the fact that the film was shot not on nature, as close as possible to the places of the events described, but in England, in specially created sets. As a result, according to Ebert, the film differs little from Hollywood movies about the WWII. But maybe Ebert did not understand what the Russian film critic Sergei Kudryavtsev understood and explained in his review that
“for Kubrick this is only one of the wars, a special case in history, instead of which there could be any other example of the mass manifestation of inhumanity, the implementation of mechanical destruction work. "
To my regret, among the numerous reviews of this film was not found, at least I did not come across, not a single review written not by a "sofa" critic, but by a participant in real military operations. And I would like to know the opinion of the warriors who have gone through the crucible of the "hot spots" in Afghanistan, in Chechnya, or elsewhere.
There was no official premiere of this film in the USSR, and it was not shown in Soviet cinemas. However, by the time this film was released in the Soviet Union, video studios were already operating in full swing, and Soviet film enthusiasts, including myself, were already somewhat saturated with American films on the subject of the Vietnam War.
77% of IMDB and Kinopoisk users gave this film a rating from 8 to 10.
According to the FilmGourmand version, the film has a rating of 8.710 and takes 241st place in the Golden Thousand.
