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Full Metal JacketLabel: WarnerBrothersDescription: Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick Collection 2001 Release) (DVD)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 18-year-old recruit--from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create 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 the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford.Stanley Kubrick's 1987 penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begin