Full Metal Jacket (1987)

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Synopsis

Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Drama/War. Based on the novel 'The Short-Timers' by Gustav Hasford. During the Vietnam War, a Marine recruit (Matthew Modine) goes through boot camp, and then works as a military journalist in Vietnam.

Content elements

• Pervasive use of the sexual expletive, most in an aggressive context, some in a sexual context; pervasive use of scatological slang and ethno-cultural slurs; infrequent use of vulgar expressions, sexual slurs, cursing, and profanity
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence in a war context, some in a suicide context - much blood, some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of smoking in a recreational context - little detail

Thematic elements

• Life during wartime
• Military life
• Coping with trauma

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for violence and pervasive coarse language

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