Monday, May 10, 2004

What's with the title?

The title of this blog is an homage to the greatest anit-war film ever made -- Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. The film was based on a book called "The Short Timers" by Gustav Hasford which is out of print but available online (Yay!). I think most Kubrick films are based on books -- The Shining and 2001 are obvious examples, Eyes Wide Shut is based on the book Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler. Full Metal Jacket is probably the best example of Kubrick's theme of the dehuminization of man, in the first part of the movie with the Paris island boot camp and later with the battle in Hue City.

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