Rita’s review of the movie not only gave a long plot synopsis of Kubrick’s film, but also compared this film to some of his other movies to show likenesses to others with respect to his style of movie making. She also compared it to some films that were not by him to show stylistic likenesses and differences. Besides the plot, she also spoke about how all of the characters in the beginning of the movie were stripped of their individuality by the fact that everyone’s hair was shaved off so that all the men would look the same. Their individuality was also stripped by the fact that all the men were forced to do the same movements and recite the same songs during routine formations and exercises. tA few of the characters were left to be different. For example Private Pyle was Kubrick’s token ‘psycho’ in this film. She then states that the first part of the movie is meant to be very precise and structured in order to contrast to the more chaotic second part of the film where the soldiers are on the front line. Rita also mentioned that the metallic, beating, moaning music played an important role in enhancing the destructive feeling given in the movie which was more evident in the times such as where the audience gets ready to find Pyle in the restroom ready to flip out and shoot not only himself, but the Sergeant as well, or when the soldiers on the front line are hunting down the sniper girl.
Rita seemed to be pretty literate in the visual literacy of movies, which could be supported by the fact that she stated that Kubrick uses a “stumblecam” or shaky hand like motion when filming the soldier’s movements into the broken down city in order to mimic the motion of a soldier creeping with the others. Her overall review of the movie seems pretty accurate to my opinions of the movie after having seen it. However, her review would not have really made me want to see the movie if it wasn’t required of me. The whole review was very long and made it hard to stay interested.
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