Gomer Pile (Full Metal Jacket)

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Full Metal Jacket Gomer Pile Stanley Kubrick Drill Sergeant
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Lots can be said about this movie. I considered posting the entire drill scene, but this fragment captures it pretty well on its own. Buy this movie!

In the military, you are confronted with your drill instructor practically immediately, he personifies violence and aggression.
Brutalization and desensitization are what happens at boot camp. From the moment you step off the bus you are physically and verbally abused: countless push-ups, endless hours at attention or running with heavy loads, while carefully trained professionals take turns screaming at you. Your head is shaved, you are herded together naked and dressed alike, losing all individuality. This brutalization is designed to break down your existing mores and norms and to accept a new set of values that embrace destruction, violence, and death as a way of life. In the end, you are desensitized to violence and accept it as a normal and essential survival skill in your brutal new world.
-- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Dave Grossman

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Gomer Pile (Full Metal Jacket)

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  • @elKavernikola: ...

    @elKavernikola: actually, if the entire world just relaxed there would be no need for war, rendering soldiers and armies pretty much usless

    so simple

    unfortunately there's people like you, anally retentive and violent, in every country in the world... mine and yours :P

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  • Ha! Win. <3

    Ha!

    Win. <3

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  • Why would you shoot ...

    Why would you shoot a baby in the face or twenty Iraqis? I don't get it...

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  • I would've laughed ...

    I would've laughed my ass off too!

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  • Wow! I just learned ...

    Wow! I just learned that relaxing will kill me! I'll never relax again! You know what? I'm gonna go out, and kill twenty Iraqis and shoot a baby in the face! You just showed me the path to violence!

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