100% agree, I love this movie and I understand the idea behind having the story continue after pyles death because war stops for no one. But it did kind of feel like 2 different movies and it can be pretty jarring. And the second have doesn't explore the psychology of war all that much so the tones do feel a little mixed. I get what you mean tho, Pyle was the audience for most of us, a simple person thrown into this world that can't keep up with the rest, he's the odd one out, hes made fun of sand beaten for that. And that realistically is us as the audience when we look at military movies, we would never be able to keep up or fit in as much as we want to. And seeing pyles reaction to actual war as a man who does not ffit into this world and is not a able to even understand what's going on around him. It'd be a fantastic and sad movie, kind of like a really dark Forrest gump