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Full Metal Jacket. Stanley Kubrick. Warner Brothers, 1987.
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Full Metal Jacket. Stanley Kubrick. Warner Brothers, 1987.
The Question and Answer section for Full Metal Jacket is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
THat would be the haircut scene. We know nothing about the background of soldiers.
Doesn't it say RTD?
In my opinion, the movie opens in boot camp, showing the intiation of the boys into soldiers, in order to clearly capture the change in their lives. The soldiers are in the midst of losing their indentities..... they are becoming a whole........