FMJ

So I'm watching Full Metal Jacket for the first time since High school when I was in ROTC and about the join the military. Several years later, a few of my friends have died in service and I have rewatched the film. Holy shit, I always thought this was Kubricks most "normal" film and had the least occult symbolism going on but I was very wrong. I never noticed the Vietcong flag draped in the corners like this, the red and black, the inverted pentagram and the flames flickering beneath. anyone else notice shit in this film that I haven't ? I know theres one scene where a Vietnamese billboard translates to english: To continuously serve Satan, your excellency, but I havent noticed much else.

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Don't mind our mutt redditors, they can't help themselves but talk all the time about star wars or harry potter. It's in their genes.

I can't say myself I ever spotted anything mystic buried in a movie, but please do tell more about FMJ. It's been a long time.

I never noticed that
Same with the flag tbh
Nice finds OP
I wonder if bootcamp part has any hidden symbolism in it

I've heard Full Metal Jacket: Brotherhood is much better, since it follows the plot of the original comics more closely

you should watch kubrick then, i would almost hate to spoil anything for you.

lol

I didnt notice the billboard myself tbh I read about it online after googling the inverted star thing. I swear seeing that made me shit my pants.

on a more obvious level the fires around them, the black and red /inverted pentagram flag and the dying gook girl make it clear that the scene is basically jokers descent into hell, really its the whole squads descent into hell, but joker seems to be the only one who realizes it and is horrified by it. the others have all either become jaded to it all, like the black guy, or maniacally laughing about it, like the machine gunner guy, giving in fully to their inner evil.

but on another level I think the scene is supposed to represent a Satanic ritual of some kind. The burning fire, the black temple-like building where they kill a child on the summit, and the act of killing a child itself are all reminiscent of the rites of Moloch described by the Romans during the Punic wars and in the Kings of the Bible. the soldiers all stand around the dying 14 year old sniper gook girl , like some sorta pentagram position. I noticed this position done earlier before with cowboys death and the death of the two soldiers where the machine gunner guy says "better you than me". I think its making a comparison between war and human sacrifice, almost as if war itself is human sacrifice on a large scale.

thats just my thoughts on what kubrick is trying to say at least

When does this happen?

Eye's wide shut was a legit spooky movie.
Polanski's Rosemary's baby was like that too.

War as a great bloody sacrifice, I like it.

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