Journal: Movie Review - Full Metal Jacket

   Full Metal Jacket is a war movie highlighting the brutality of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a newly trained Marine Platoon. Sectioned in two different scenario. We follow the Marine group through brutal basic training all the way through to the Tet Offensive. Full Metal Jacket brings to the table is the psychological part of being a grunt, The movie itself is very entertaining and catches the psychological horror of the war very well. Grunts who are thrown off the deep end are considered "Section 8's" The first section 8 we met throughout the movie is a low IQ marine trainee. Who eventually is thrown off the edge by a psychotic drill sergeant and the struggle of basic training.
    The movie highlights the struggle of being a soldier in the Vietnam War very well. By the end of the movie it showcases how much of a deep struggle the soldiers had endured through out the movie. How much the human mind can endure throughout wartime.