Full Metal Jacket to make this eclectic finale." Roger Ebert said, "The movie disintegrates into a series of self-contained set pieces, none of them quite satisfying." Julian Rice, in his book "Kubrick's Hope" (2008), sees the second part of the film as continuing the psychic journey of Joker in trying to come to grips with human evil. Tony Lucia, in his July 5, 1987, review of "Full Metal Jacket" for the "Reading Eagle", looked at the themes of Kubrick's career, suggesting "the unifying element may be the ordinary man dwarfed by situations too vast and imposing to handle". Lucia specifically refers to the
The Rainbow Jacket The Rainbow Jacket The Rainbow Jacket is a 1954 British Ealing Studios drama film, produced by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, and featuring Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Honor Blackman and Sid James. A champion jockey, having forfeited his own career by taking a bribe, takes a young rider under his wing. The film premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on 27 May 1954, and the reviewer for "The Times" wrote that, ""It is, then, an entertaining film, a film in love with racing and yet not quite so devotedly so as to refrain from suggesting