In response to Mark Bunster's comment about FMJ by Kubrick: as in 2001, K leaves out the connectives between parts, forcing the viewer to think through the film and reach his/her own conclusions. So FMJ breaks in two deliberately, and the ending of part II echoes the ending of I: Pyle's killing of the sargeant is repeated in Joker's killing of the woman sniper; like Pyle, Joker becomes a "man" and a good Marine by face-to-face killing. FMJ confronts us with moral dilemmas without the mythicizing or preachiness of Platoon. Andrew Gordon