Full Metal Jacket is a movie about the war in Vietnam at the style of Stanley Kubrick. In this movie we first see the hard process of become part of the Marines, and then we see the action inside Vietnam War.
One character that attracted my attention was Rafterman. Rafterman was the photographer of Stars and Stripes who decided to go with Joker to cover the action directly from battlefield. One scene in which we can see a big difference between a soldier “prepare to be in battlefield” and Rafterman is the one in which Joker and him were in the helicopter with that rebellious soldier who was killing Vietnamese people. In this scene we can see the reaction of Rafterman. At first time I though that he was sick because he was afraid of traveling in the helicopter, but then I realize that his reactions was because the other soldier was killing innocent people, and he kill them without any feeling of compassion. During the rest of film we can see how Rafterman react at the different situations he had to confront in battlefield. At the end Rafterman had to kill a sniper and save the life of Joker. In this part we can see Rafterman feeling proud and happy of what he did. So we can se an before and after of Rafterman in this movie. Kevyn Major Howard is the actor who plays the role of Rafterman in this movie. By the way he develop his function as Rafterman this character was a credible one and the purpose of Kubrick to show us the transformation of him was asserted.
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I think that you selected an interesting character in the movie. Rafterman is a secondary character in the movie that may easily be cast aside to the other characters. Nevertheless, you are right on the point describing his transformation. I believe that the transformation that you explained is what Kubrick is trying to portray throughout the entire movie with all the characters. At first they are shy in the heat of combat, but after that they become cold-hearted.
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