Full Metal Jacket (1987) directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a critically acclaimed war film that explores the brutal realities of the Vietnam War and the psychological toll it takes on soldiers. The film is divided into two distinct parts: the grueling boot camp training under the tyrannical Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) and the harrowing experience of combat in Vietnam, seen through the eyes of Private Joker (Matthew Modine).