... of times and is, all things considered for Kubricks caliber of film, shapeless. It also loses a consistency of metaphor in relation to visuals and plot. The overall Cinematography (done by John Alcott) is outstanding and should never be brought into question, though the film itself can in some circles be. The artistic aspect of the film is unsurprisingly from Kubrick ... , f**king amazing, and any questionable content is distracting from the true value of the film and a representation of the viewers inability to process it. As previously stated, the dialogue loses a little ... ...

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... stories tend to hold more ideology. Movies act as a medium to let us, the younger generations, experience what happened before us. We can see and feel Kennedy's assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral and to an extent feel the paints of war or at least learn the pains of war through film. By the same vision, feeling and pain are ours ... , as Hollywood, like the country as a whole, had difficulty adjusting to the grim legacy of a lost and troubling war. During the conflict, Hollywood produced only a single film dealing with Vietnam--John Wayne's The Green Berets. In general, Holl...

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... the Vietnamese still makes for uncomfortable viewing. When, during the first Russian roulette sequence, Robert De Niro's character Michael kills his captors it is an act of bravado worthy of John Wayne, and one that American audiences clung to. When the film ends, with the mourners of Nick's funeral singing "God Bless America" in unison it becomes abundantly clear that this ... Army depicted in these films represents not only racial and ethnic differences (conflict between blacks and whites is portrayed extremely well in Hamburger Hill, in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassina...

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