Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Full Metal Jacket
”A Marine's brutal training and the horrors of Vietnam War take a toll on his comrades.”
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It's the twelfth film by master Stanley Kubrick (and one of his most underrated), released after a long break of seven years following "The Shining". The movie is based on the semi-autobiographical novel "A Steel Vest" ("The Short-Timers") by Gustav Hasford, and it has an Oscar-nominated screenplay co-written by him, Kubrick and war correspondent Michael Herr, author of the book "Dispatches" (which also inspired Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now"). As such, "Full Metal Jacket" is one of the most brutal portraits that cinema has given of the psychological cost of war, best exemplified by the chilling scene with soldier Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio) in the bathroom. Special mention to Lee Ermey's performance as Sergeant Hartman, who has inspired an entire archetype of how military personnel are represented in fiction.
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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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