Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket

Language : English
Year : 1987
Medical Theme : Suicide/ Mental health
Actors : Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Ermey
Storyline : The film Full Metal Jacket is a war movie that covers two important aspects of a soldier’s life. The first part of the film shows how soldiers are recruited and trained, before they go to face the real war. Here the soldiers are addressed by their nicknames and rigorous discipline is maintained and the training part comes to an end when Private Gomer Pyle commits suicide, after he kills his senior drill instructor. The second part is set in Vietnam during the war and there the new soldiers witness the horrors of warfare and some of them die there and they begin to understand the importance of life.