National Review, August 14th, 1987
Full Metal Jacket IN HIS Esquisse d'une psychologie ducinema (1976), Andre Malraux wrote: "The silent film knew sections [les parties]; the sound film no longer knows them, and editors encounter a permanent obstacle there. For the sound film does not want empty spaces and gives narrative continuity pride of place among its means of conveying action.' I am always leery of theory, even if it calls itself psychology, and I don't know whether I would agree with Malraux in a blanket way; yet his statement surely applies to Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, a film in two sections that falls apar...
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