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Commentary On The Film 'Full Metal Jacket 1987'

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Full Metal Jacket 1987 is the A two-segment look war film based on Hasford 's 1979 novel The Short-Timers produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The story follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their training and the experiences during the Vietnam War. The film was released after 7 years from The shining 1980 and it stars Matthew Modine, as Private/Corporal/Sergeant James T. "Joker" Davis, Vincent D 'Onofrio as Private Leonard Lawrence "Gomer Pyle", R. Lee Ermey - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Dorian Harewood as Corporal "Eightball", Arliss Howard - Private/Sergeant Robert "Cowboy" Evans, Adam Baldwin - Sergeant "Animal Mother” And others. Film is very pleasant to watch with great dialogues and fine artists. As for me, my major interest in Full Metal Jacket is how Kubrick viewed involvement of U.S in that particular war, what was the point of the view of the solders; did they know what was it they were involved in and they were fighting for? …show more content…

The barbers are shaving their heads ruthlessly, first steps to make you one of them. You get the same green uninform as others, you stay in the row as you are told and you are supposed to listen to sergeants embarrassing speech. First steps preparing for the war as a soldier is to lose your individuality, move like others, act like others, think and act like others- that’s an order! You haven 't even started living your life and you bang in to the world of cruelty, disgrace and insult, you 're supposed to handle it in order to survive. In order to become a "real solder". You even have your own pray; Marine Corps involuntarily becomes your

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