Weekly What are you watching thread #21

Watched Filth (2013), absolute kino you folks really ought to check it out. I don't want to spoil much but the transition from black comedy to psychological drama was so well pulled off, it really shows off Baird as a very capable director, definitely going to watch some of his other stuff at some point. It's really funny that I watched it straight after Clockwork Orange too, there definitely are very strong paralels in both the themes and the story itself, and overall I feel like Filth pulled it off better. Sorry Kubrick!

Speaking of Kubrick I also watched Full Metal jacket for the first time, decided to go through his filmography a bit. Really good film, but I think everyone knows that by now. Does a really good job of portraying the horrors of war that aren't just in terms of the loss of life but rather in the molding of personalities into the kind that thrive in the conditions of war, or in other words- turning people into psychopaths. Definitely very different from something like Saving Private Ryan or All Quiet on the Western Front