Tag: ‘Full Metal Jacket’

• Before you kill yourself…

  

  …listen up! Words to live by for anyone contemplating suicide: “The dead know only one thing — it’s better to be alive.” — Mathew Modine’s character in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket. The movie follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their boot camp training to the 1968 Tet Offensive, one of the…

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  June 15, 2023

  Life and Death

  ‘Full Metal Jacket’, Life and Death, Matthew Modine, Stanley Kubrick, Suicide, Vietnam War