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Stanley Kubrick is a well-known film producer who has produced a host of films that are regarded today as classics. One of these films in particular is Full Metal Jacket (1987), which is an anti-war film. The film has been nominated for an Oscar among other prestigious recognitions. Being that it is anti-war, Full Metal Jacket does a superb job of depicting the realities of war. After seeing this film, the images and ideas produced will leave you wanting to have no participation in any aspect of war. This was Kubrick’s main initiative. The theme of this film is that war, and the effects it has on the people involved in the process. Although the training boot camp is supposed to prepare the men in the film for war, it also has a significant effect on their psyche. War is dehumanizing and debilitating. The men in the film are prepped to become indifferent to death, pain and violence. One scene in particular …show more content…

Instead of dropping his weapon Pyle snarls, and aims it at Hartman. Pyle continues to breathe deeply. Hartman carries on yelling at Pyle and asks him, “What is your major malfunction.” This a very popular quote from the film. Hartman is able to get a few more words out before he is shot in the chest by Pyle. All we see is blood explode from his chest. In slow motion, Hartman falls to the ground and we hear his baritone shriek of pain. Pyle then points his weapon at an especially petrified Joker who pleads for him to “go easy.” Pyle slowly lowers his weapon and backs into the darkness to sit down, once again, on the toilet. The toilet, is essentially, his throne in this world of sh*t that he is in. The fact that Pyle did not kill Joker shows where they stand friendship-wise. Pyle cares enough for Joker not to kill him. He seems exhausted both mentally and physically at this point. All the while, the background music continues to add a dark suspense to the

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Bruce Dawe’s novel, Weapon Training is one of the most popular poems that Bruce Dawe wrote about the military life during the Vietnam War. In his novel, he used stronger themes to catch reader’s attention. Weapon Training is about Bruce’s opposition to the Vietnam War. In his poem, he establishes that the Vietnam War will cause hard time for Australian if they involve in it. In the novel, Bruce used dramatic anger by using the voice of the drill Sergeant to establish this idea, he tried to explain that the weapons that are being trained are human being, he tried to explain 'that' the men were forced on recruitment to be solders and trained to kill another human being.

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Men went through so many tasks during the Vietnam War physically and mentally. The beginning chapters focus on training for war and being prepared for the worst. For example, when there is a sergeant in a room with the marines. The sergeant walks to the chalk board and writes “AMBUSHES ARE MURDER AND MURDER IS FUN” (36-37). The

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Either war and violence is obsolete or all mankind is. Private First Class Paul Berlin is scared for his life and haunted by the thought of war, being in Vietnam is not anywhere someone wants to be at this time and he finds himself right in the middle of it. Trudging through swamp, mud and soaked, lush forest isn't something you want to find yourself doing, especially with imminent threats of attack. Private Berlin´s platoon is on their way to their own ¨safe escape¨, the ocean is a sign of safety and security for the soldiers. After the death of Billy Boy, the entire platoon and especially Paul Berlin is haunted by his passing, scared of the possibilities to come.

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In the story, he points out how mankind has always used war to deal with conflicts since the beginning of time. Since that evolution of time we send our soldiers to war, so we do not have to go ourselves. The difficult situation is going from training to be in war, but coming home to not having any training to deal with the traumatic memories one carries. The speech Hector Garcia gave during his TedTalk conference is effective in using the rhetorical analysis, to convince the audience as well as viewers of why we need to help soldiers with their suffering with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

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