Platoon made in 1986, was based on the 1962 Vietnam war. The war is shown from the point of Chris Taylor played by Charlie Sheen, the college drop out who wants to serve his country, but gradually realises that the entire war is a farce. H e is figting in the jungles, battling with the insects, the leaches n his own self. The facts of the war come to the forefront- the lack of purpose, the prevalence of the uneducated and the poor, his own platoon being fragmented into two separate halves, one with the good side, which respects life, and is brilliantly played by William Daefoe and other the evil, with no compassion no rules, just plain killing, played by Tom Berenger. The film is primarily driven by these two characters.
Some of the sequences are finely, rather exceptionally shot. The scenes where they get into the houses of the cambodians, dig them out of their holes, where the woman sees her handicapped son killed, where the child looses her mother and berenger points a gun at the child threatening to kill her of she makes another sound and William confronting Tom for his narssisim.
As charlie Sheen aptly rounds off the film at, "We weren't fighting the enemy outside but the one within us......"
Stone swept all the awards for this one at the gloden globes, the BAFTA and the Academy.
Some of the sequences are finely, rather exceptionally shot. The scenes where they get into the houses of the cambodians, dig them out of their holes, where the woman sees her handicapped son killed, where the child looses her mother and berenger points a gun at the child threatening to kill her of she makes another sound and William confronting Tom for his narssisim.
As charlie Sheen aptly rounds off the film at, "We weren't fighting the enemy outside but the one within us......"
Stone swept all the awards for this one at the gloden globes, the BAFTA and the Academy.
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