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  Full Metal Jacket 1987

  ★★★ Added

  I was really unsure how I felt about this movie. First half and second half felt completely different, but the transition paints a good picture of what the Vietnam War must have been like for the young men enlisting. While the film starts out with a crew of privates bonding over boot camp, their tough drill sergeant, and the prospects of fighting for their country as marines, landing in Vietnam changed this patriotic, dutiful feeling as it narrowed in on…

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  Drive My Car 2021

  ★★★★½ Added

  Long piece depicting loss, guilt, and pain. Throughout the film and through different ways, the characters explored an answer to the question of what to do with yourself after experiencing painful events and then having to live with them. I found them expressing the idea that you shouldn't shut yourself off to the pain of losing people you love, but living in grief all the time is also not the right response. Mr. Kafuku's play gave an encouragement that you…

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