Full metal jacket.

First thing I would have to say about this film is that it is PURE GENIUS! and that if you haven’t already seen it, you should! And even if you have, you should watch it again! The film follows the lives of some US marines (primarily a man nicknamed Joker) during their days training in boot camp and fighting the Vietnam war. I think the sheer brutality shown in the boot camp by the drill instructor as well as the other soldiers is brilliant to watch and focuses mainly on the physical and psychological aspect of their training. The drill instructor takes particular interest in a trainee that he nicknames Gomer Pyle due to his large stature. Because this trainee is obviously less able than the others in the physical aspect of the training, he continuously makes mistakes causing the drill instructor to punish the other trainees instead of Pyle. It is Jokers responsibility to keep Pyle out of trouble but it is only when he begins to receive beatings from the other trainees (including a reluctant joker) that he starts to improve. The training continues and Pyle begins to become obsessive about his training causing him to excel as well as lose his mind. the deterioration of his mind is what fascinated me most, especially when it becomes apparent that not even the drill instructor can control him. A few weeks later the film rejoins Joker, who is now a combat reporter who prefers to tell the truth rather than tell everyone what they want to hear. He rejoins one of his comrades from boot camp (cowboy) to accompany him on a mission that soon takes a turn for the worse when they lose their way and become pinned down by a sniper. Cowboy gets shot and this causes the men to go into a frenzie, once the sniper is incapacitated, the rest of the men decided to test Joker to prove his worth by making him kill the sniper who turns out to be a young Vietnamese girl. There are some quality combat scenes as well as a few funny moments and I definitely recommend seeing this film.