Hagen, you noticed at the finale how when Joker shoots the sniper, for a brief shot, his peace symbol button is "hidden" from view?
If anything, while the first half is superb, I always prefered the 2nd half. Maybe its because unlike other Vietnam pictures, a film about the "jungle war" instead was fought in urban battlefields.
Hagen, the major sequence where Animal charges to fight the sniper, I always thought of that as Kubrick's visual statement on the American conflict in Vietnam. That is, you have one person firing away, but still one person that is insignificant compared to thousands of soldiers with better weapons. However, the platoon gets drawn into this firewar, where mostly because of Animal's need for revenge, several of his own guys get wasted. I mean, at least 3-4 are lost, with Animal blasting the whole area with his RAMBO-like machine gun-firing, and what for? To eliminate a chick.
