Full Metal Jacket and 2001 Kubrick directed this movie very strange and disgusting movie. After I finish watching it, I look WIKI and it's X rated. Wish I knew before I wasted my time watching it.
It got an X rating at the time of release which was 1971. By today's standards it barely qualifies as an "R" rated movie.
The irony of this is that much of the filming location was a newly-built 'utopia' for housing residents of run-down areas of London, set-dressed to look soulless and depressing, deprived, dilapidated and dystopian for the footage. The reality of the estate quickly descended into the fantasy of the film. Much of this, one of Britain's many urban disasters of the 1960's has now been demolished and rebuilt in a more sensitive manner,
