Full Metal Jacket
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Stanley Kubrick returned to one of his most potent themes—the senseless, dehumanizing devastation of warfare—with this unflinchingly intense plunge into the inferno of the Vietnam War. Based on the writings of Gustav Hasford and Michael Herr, Full Metal Jacket follows a band of U.S. Marine recruits as they are systemically broken down in the crucible of boot camp—an experience that destroys some and hardens others into callous killing machines to be unleashed on the battlefields of Da Nang and Huế. Capturing the chaos and carnage with his exactingly controlled camera, Kubrick delivers one of cinema’s most blistering statements on the nature of war, a caustic, feverishly disturbing portrayal of combat as a relentless ritual of moral degradation. (criterion.com)
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