It’s been a while since we did any Kubrick, so this week we are tackling the 1987 Vietnam war film Full Metal Jacket! We chat about the systematic destruction of individuality, boy movies, the duality of man, working with Stanley Kubrick, dating apps, masculinity, whether something can be hard to watch and still good, and more!

Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers. It stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, and Arliss Howard.