Film · 1987 · War drama
Full Metal Jacket
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
1987
★ 8.3 editorial score
The first half is the most quoted boot camp ever filmed: Kubrick found a real Marine drill instructor, let him write half his own material, and made basic training terrifying.
“"Full Metal Jacket" states its primary concern fairly loud: Private Joker is grilled for wearing a peace pin on his combat uniform while having "Born to Kill" scrawled across his helmet. He responds that it is a comment on the duality of man, warring and peaceable—or, in this case, the Marine-brand, courageous, thoughtless, instinctual killer, the human beneath it, and the difficulties if not the futility of one suppressing the other.”
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