Full-Metal Jacket

Published on April 13, 2026

Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Mon., Apr. 13, 2026, 7 – 9 p.m.

White male drill sargeant yelling at troops lined up in their underwear

After the longest hiatus of his career to that point, Kubrick followed the chilling symmetries of The Shining with the discursive confrontations of Full Metal Jacket, a Vietnam film whose darkly comedic tone embodies the grotesque cognitive dissonance of a futile military endeavor. Eschewing easy points of identification, the film depicts American military conditioning as a hellish crucible designed to warp impressionable minds into amoral killing machines, and it follows its cold logic from a boot camp in South Carolina to a bombed-out battlefield in Huế.

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