Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the campus turmoil of the 1960s, faculties recoiled from the idea of instructing morals. Attempting to teach students what values they should hold would respark the campus protests and violence that arose in rebellion against the Vietnam War and the way universities, attempted to control students' lives. But two movements have arisen which have placed the teaching of ethics back on higher education's agenda...
...while this line comes from the most recent of the Vietnam films, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick injects the line with an ironic twist which is indicative of the tone of the film. "I am living in a world of shit," one Vietnam recruit says, "But at least I am alive...
...genius of Kubrick's work peaks in the second half of the film, as the new Marines are placed into several different platoons in Vietnam, just in time for the surprise Tet Offensive...
...film lays out Vietnam before the audience in all its scintillating confusion. It does not indulge in the gruesome battles of "Platoon," but it also does not manipulate its audience into feeling terrorized by the silver screen...
...interplay of violence and sex brings to the fore the exhiliration of facing death. Like life, and patriotism, Vietnam is a good time while you're in it, but in the end it is all quite absurd...