Full Metal Jacket

The last film to be released during Kubrick’s lifetime is a powerful look at the Vietnam war. Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed into its meat grinder in this lacerating and darkly comic journey through a human-made hell. Through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old recruit from his first days in the Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the horrors of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam – we examine the damage war inflicts on the collective human soul with a cutting irony and terrifying intensity that few films have matched. Now just as relevant and strong a message as it was 38 years ago.