Help with Film Studies

[james89]

I chose Stanley Kubrick as my research project and was wondering if anyone could answer this:

What Kubrick movie out of 2001 a space odyssey, a clockwork orange and full metal jacket best shows dehumanization and why?

[phosphene]

full metal jacket. because the military is the definition of dehumanization. basic training is alpha level brainwashing. your identity is stripped away, and then you are a blank slate for the military to build on.

[EvadingGrid]

full metal jacket. because the military is the definition of dehumanization. basic training is alpha level brainwashing. your identity is stripped away, and then you are a blank slate for the military to build on.

That is why they prefer to recruit children not old enough to buy a beer

[Viper]

I'd say Clockwork Orange cause of the chemical lobotomy brainwashing Alex is put through, and also due to the nihilistic use of "ultra violence", drugs, casual sex, and the general helpless feeling the movie puts across.
Like in 2001 the guys had a mission, ok the mission was put before the men but still a mission was there, same with Full Metal, the guys had a mission, the only mission in Clockwork apart from the scientist's in the latter half, was the fulfillment of the gang's capriciousness.

[citizenx]

It is difficult to see how Space Odyssey would pertain to dehumanization, but I don't think it is beyond the pale.  The other two films, of course, focus on dehumanization in a negative sense.

Bowman's transcendence (post-human) is certainly a form of de-human-ization, even if it is suggested that this is somehow positive, natural or teleological.  It is mirrored in Hal's humanization as a computer.  Hal is then deactivated -- losing his "humanity" as well.

Of course, if you view Clarke's story as NWO propaganda/predictive programming of a sort, there is nothing really positive about Bowman's transformation at all.