Full Metal Jacket

The use of "Surfin' Bird" and "Mickey Mouse Club March" is pure subversive genius. Ending a massacre film by singing Mickey's song is the height of Kubrickian nihilism. "Is man born to kill? No, he was trained to do so." *Kubrick didn't make a war film; he made a film about the duality of the soul and the assembly line that turns human beings into killing machines. *