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- Sex & Nudity (5)
- Violence & Gore (5)
- Profanity (3)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (1)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (4)
- Spoilers (10)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- Some scenes with a prostitute where the soldiers say they're gonna have sex with her. Nothing is shown.
- A man is seen looking at a nude magazine, breasts shown briefly. (This is also very hard to see)
- A man haggles with a Vietnamese prostitute for sex.(However the act itself isn't shown)
- It is implied that a prostitute takes turns having sex with several men. Discussed and implied but not shown.
- A lot of sexual insults from the drill sergeant.
Violence & Gore
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- People attempting to flee Vietnam are gunned down from a helicopter.
- Several members of the Viet Cong are fatally executed from a far distance in a destroyed city.
- A viet cong firing squad ambushes a military base. An intense gun battle ensues between the marine corps and the viet cong. No one is shot, there is just a lot of shooting and a few explosions.
- The violence in this film is intense. The violence is not glorified.
- A lot of war violence, including frequent shooting. The more graphic instances are mentioned below:
Profanity
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- 74 uses of "fuck" (some used sexually) and 70 uses of "shit" (along with at least 13 uses of "bullshit" and 1 use of "shitty"), along with at least 5 uses of "ass," 11 uses of "asshole" and "hell," 5 uses of "son of a bitch," 1 of "Jesus Christ," 1 use of "whore," a few uses of "cocksucker"
- Most of the profanity is used in the first 40 minutes of the movie, where the bulk of Gny. Sgt. Hartman's dialogue comes from.
- Derogatory terms for African Americans, the Vietnamese, Italians and Jews like n*gga and other disrespectful terms
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- No drugs or alcohol but there are several scenes with people smoking cigarettes.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The violence is intense and realistic. While there are brief scenes of dark comedy a lot of the film carries a very dark tone.
- The first 45 minutes of the film is intense because of boot camp training, however it can be bit fuuny at times due to Gny. Sgt. Hartman's vulgarity.
- The dehumanization of soldiers is a key theme throughout the movie, being shown to varying degrees.
- This is a very dark and disturbing movie.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- A man is hit with bars of soap wrapped in towels by members of his own platoon because he slows everyone down and keeps on making mistakes, which causes punishment for the other men.
- A man kills his drill sergeant, blood spurts out of his chest. This man kills himself approximately 30 seconds later.
- A woman is shot in the stomach and blood spurts.
- A man is shot in the leg by a sniper, blood is briefly seen and he falls to the ground. He is then shot again in the chest. Another soldier tries to rescue him but gets shot in the kidney. He then gets shot in the arm with lots of blood. Both men are then gunned down by the sniper. THIS ALL HAPPENS VERY QUICKLY
- A man is shot in the chest by a sniper, some blood is shown coming out of his mouth. He dies.
- A man is shown committing suicide with a rifle, not too much detail but a lot of blood.
- A mentally unstable man kills himself with a rifle.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- A man is shot in the chest by a rifle, blood is seen
- There is an on-screen suicide where a man shoots himself through the mouth with a rifle in front of his bunkmate. It is explicitly shown, emotionally intense, and extremely graphic; containing blood spatter and brain matter.
- It is revealed in the Vietnam scene near the end that the sniper is a young Asian, probably Vietnamese girl. She's injured by one of the soldiers, and she's telling them to shoot her.
