4 Part film, not 2

That's the line of thinking I was going with. Obviously the 2 part narrative is more direct and I'm not questioning the people who see the film as such. I just happened to be watching this the night I posted it and the 4 dichotomy ideology really separated the 2 "Halves" so to say. I was wondering if anyone else saw what I did so I decided to post and hear some thoughts. With 'The Shining', Kubrick really pulled the Wool over our eyes. We have Jack/Grady, Wendy/The Twins(Whom are a Singular Entity in many ways)... It's slick stuff. Nevermind Danny and Tony or even Halloran. The Girls saying Hi and Bye, the Room 237 Women. Where does it stop??? Dolls of characters, spectral reversals such as the initial ride by Jack to The Overlook Vs the ride on "Closing Day", all of which isn't new to any of us Kubrick fans of course. We can never be TOO comfortable with our idea of a Kubrick Narrative. He fools us, even when not necessarily trying to.

Then there's the theory that Pvt. Pyle is "reborn" as Animal Mother in the second half of the film. Some have even gone so far as to suggest the final boot camp scene in the blue bathroom never even happened at all, but is a fantasy sequence symbolizing Pyle's "killing" of the "father" (Sgt. Hartmann) and being "reborn" in the second half as the super Marine Animal Mother. Pyle is even shown in the film being forced to march with his thumb in his mouth like a baby, and he displays many childish traits. In the second half, we see Animal Mother, who is the soldier Pyle would have turned into if he had survived basic training and shed his childish personality. And who knows, maybe Pyle did survive?

Suppose Kubrick had cut the bathroom scene and jumped straight into Vietnam. Wouldn't it have been interesting to suddenly be introduced to Pyle (still played by D'Onofrio) going by the name "Animal Mother" in Vietnam. I wonder if this may have been Kubrick's idea in early drafts of the film, or did he always have Pyle killing Hartmann in part one?