Film scholar Greg Jenkins has analyzed the adaptation of the novel as a screenplay. The novel is in three parts and the film greatly expands the relatively brief first section about the boot camp on Parris Island and essentially discards Part III. This gives the film a twofold structure, telling two largely independent stories that are connected by the same characters. Jenkins said this structure is a development of concepts Kubrick originally discussed in the 1960s, when he talked about wanting to explode the usual conventions of narrative structure.
Film scholar Greg Jenkins has analyzed the adaptation of the novel as a screenplay The novel is in three parts and the film greatly expands the relatively brief first section about the boot camp on Parris Island and essentially discards Part III This gives the film a twofold structure telling two largely independent stories that are connected by the same characters Jenkins said this structure is a development of concepts Kubrick originally discussed in the 1960s when he talked about wanting to explode the usual conventions of narrative structure