RadixJournal - Richard Spencer - Full Metal Jacket

Oct. 14, 2024 - RadixJournal - Richard Spencer

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Full Metal Jacket

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit radixjournal.substack.comRichard and Mark delve into Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987).

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	M-I-C-K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E.
	We play fair and we work hard and we're in harmony.
	M-I-C-K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E.
	Mickey Mouse!
	I Boys and girls are Welcome as can be M.I.C.
	K.E.Y. M.O.U.S.E.
	Who's the leader of the club that's
	My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencotch and the great homecoming fuck fantasy.
	I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short.
	I'm in a world of shit, yes, but I am alive, and I am not afraid.
	K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E I
	think the final scenes that we've watched, I mean, there is a traveling to hell, to the underworld.
	And this is rather on the nose in the sense of this building is literally aflame, this strong red and orange light throughout.
	Seeing the horrible face of war and then overcoming it and then rising again, And, you know, that company is in harmony, as the song says.
	They're all marching in order.
	They've got an esprit de corps, and they're ready to kick ass.
	They're not afraid.
	And, again, I think the...
	I mean, the closing end credit scene are actually painted black by...
	Rolling Stones, but this is ironic.
	There's no doubt that the fact that they just murdered a teenage girl in cold blood, and then they're singing the Mickey Mouse song.
	There's all these layers of irony there.
	That girl is probably the age at which she would be a Mouseketeer, and they've just shot her in the face.
	But I also think there's the layer of the American empire led by men wherever they came from.
	Maybe they're a Jewish journalist or ironist like Joker or their animal mother, some psychopathic death machine and fuck machine.
	They're going to lead the American empire.

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