Full Metal Jacket

Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket. Through the eyes of an 18yearold recruitfrom his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and recreate him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war. Based on t