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In a rap way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a rap cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill rap instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh Customers who viewed this also viewed Stanley Kubrick Collection DVD ~ Stanley Kubrick Apocalypse Now DVD ~ Sam Bottoms The Shining DVD ~ Jack Nicholson 2001 - A Space Odyssey DVD ~ Keir DulleaExplore similar items: in DVD, in Music, and in Books Spotlight Reviews Write an
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