Review of Full Metal Jacket (1987) by Pvtjackson — 19 Jun 2014

In Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick scrutinized roots of U.S downfall in military intervention in Vietnam by taking audiences in a two-hour trip separated into two distinctive parts: the first stage took place at a U.

S typical training camp, where soldiers were trained to become emotionless killing machines under brutal conditions, and the second one featured the former trainees, now expert militants, fought against Vietnamese Resistance forces in Hue.

Whereas the first stage explained how young men lost their humanity and succumbed to brutality, their struggle in Hue was a bit of an irony as they, in spite of superior equipment and manpower, managed to take down just one little 12-year-old-like Vietnamese female sniper only after suffering three fatal casualties.

I consider this film an epic anti-war classic revealing the truth about the U.