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Thursday, February 22, 2018

The 60s Generation Sharing a TV Theme Song in an Ironic Way



Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket is, as one critic put it, a tale of "relentless discomfort and (the) complicated morality" of the war in Vietnam and perhaps a masterpiece. Is the final scene of the movie a comment on a generation united but infantile as the unit's depleted ranks walk away from the killing grounds of Hue?

Whatever the larger point, they all know the lyrics.

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