Shining, The / Full Metal Jacket

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From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, director Stanley Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock in The Shining, a milestone of the macabre. The action is savage, the story unsparing, the dialogue spiked with humor in Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick's brilliantsaga about the Vietnam War.