Post by Reynard on Mar 3, 2017 19:12:44 GMT
Ingmar Bergman's earlier movies like Wild Strawberries (1957) and The Virgin Spring (1960) have a lot going on beneath their rather straight up drama surface. His later work like Persona (1966) and Hour of the Wolf (1968) are more openly experimental and symbolic.
Elaborate on what? Full Metal Jacket's themes? Bergman's? His career? Explaining these movies would be quite a job and it's not something that one should do anyway. The whole point of using metaphors, symbolism etc is to let the audience discover its themes and ideas themselves. Explaining a piece of art would reduce it to a schoolbook that's simply ought to be learned.
Stanley Kubrick said:
The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.