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In 1987, Stanley Kubrick released Full Metal Jacket, a depressing look at the Vietnam War mostly told through the story of Private Joker, played by Matthew Modine.

"'The film is a comment on the sadism, the cruelty and the malleability of human nature,' says Kuznick. '[Robert] Muller has said, "They take little butter-balls like me and turn them into killing machines. I went from being a good guy to going over to Vietnam, and laughing at seeing women and children being wasted."'" -BBC

Links:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1973/07/the-last-days-of-the-president/376281/

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/full-metal-jacket/

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220623-full-metal-jacket-and-kubrick-the-ultimate-anti-war-films

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