No doubt about it this is my all time favourite war movie...i still get Goosebumps when I watch this movie...the movie is the culmination of Oliver Stone's experiences during the dreadful and horrific Vietnam war...The movie reiterates the fact that the rest of the world even now feels that the only job of the U.S army Is to exploit and destroy other countries in their favor...the anger that is written on the faces of the U.S soldiers when they attack an unsuspecting village because their fellow comrades have been victims of meticulously planned booby traps and land mines is shocking but at the same time brilliantly shot...
But the image and scene that we remember even today is the killing of Sergeant Elias ( William “the green goblin” Dafoe ) who raises his arms towards the sky after being shot by enemies( inspired from a 1968 war photograph) there is something about this scene which I feel is ironic....a man is being shot but this remains one of cinemas’ most iconic and defining images...future superstar Johnny Depp plays a small role in it too...interestingly the movie was first titled Break and was first offered to my favourite rebel James Douglas Morrison!!!Notice the change in Pvt Chris Taylor's ( Charlie Sheen in his breakthrough performance, well done!!!) behaviour and expressions when he first reaches Vietnam and sees the dead soldiers and in the climax when he breaks down and starts crying...
Winner Of 4 Academy awards, Platoon remains in my opinion Oliver Stone's MASTERWORK...Filled with stupendous war sequences and deft direction this one is for the ages...War is bloody...literally hell!!!!!as evident from the famous tagline of the film “the first casualty of war is innocence”...if we do not react fast then one day we also would end up mourning as chris's character does...
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