Full Metal Jacket

Divided into two sections‚ Stanley Kubrick's film tackles dual ideas - how a man becomes a soldier and how that mentality becomes part of his identity. The first half of the film deals with the severe harshness of basic training as Joker (Matthew Modine) and the rest of the boys become fighting men under the relentless‚ profane Gunnery Sgt. Hartman (Lee Ermey). Once the story moves to Vietnam‚ the film takes on a more abstract‚ fatalistic tone as it moves to a harrowing conclusion.