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Platoon Reviewed By Slyder Posted 11/10/04 09:01:09

"Amongst the top 5 greatest war movies ever" (Awesome)

After cutting his teeth in screenwriting (Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, 8 Million Ways to Die, Year of the Dragon), it wasn’t until 1986 when Oliver Stone finally came on his own, first with the brutal yet excellent Salvador and finally with this little film. Platoon is arguably Oliver Stone’s best film and one of the greatest war movies ever, ranking amongst masterworks like All Quiet on the Western Front, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and Das Boot. Several films before it like Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter only used Vietnam as a background for their respective stories while The Green Berets showed a laughable and ultimately stupid and unrealistic look at the Vietnam War; Platoon was the first true Vietnam War movie that dealt with true physical and psychological struggles of American soldiers in Vietnam and the damage it inflicted on them with a true sense of realism.Based on Stone’s own personal experience, this semi-autobiographical film introduces us to Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) a green private just arriving in Vietnam. Within a week he already hates what he’s doing because there’s an air of insanity and chaos and fear since everyone lives only to try and survive a battle, and then stay alive only to fight another battle against the enemy later on. Heading the Platoon is Staff Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger) and 2nd Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe) whom are two different personalities altogether: Barnes is the product of the system, corrupted, gung-ho, full of scars and hell-bent on destroying the elusive Viet-Cong regardless of cost and willing to fuck whomever gets in his way; Elias is also a product of the system, he’s lost faith in the war and smokes pot in order to numb the pain of the horrors of war but preserving of human and moral values. The two would ultimately clash and in doing so start another war within the platoon, a war which is even deadlier than the one waged against the enemy.What makes Platoon such an unforgettable experience is the realism of the film. Oliver Stone’s own first-hand experience in combat is highly evident. Along with cinematographer Robert Richardson and military technical advisor Capt. Dale Dye, they capture the true essence of combat via the use of handheld cameras, extreme close-ups and depressed green colors like in the jungle. Never the battle scenes are portrayed as choreographed stunts and entertaining hero-shit. The action is delivered in an in-your-face style as the whizzing bullets and explosions as you follow the men that fight for their lives or get shot at or blown up as if you were in the battles themselves. Thanks to the hand-held cameras, the film gives you a sense of madness and confusion and keeps you on the edge of your seat since it’s hard to tell where the hell the enemy is firing, or where the hell they are or will be coming from, and it gets to a point of ultimate insanity since in the end it doesn’t matter where the enemy is, it all comes down to who will survive and who doesn’t, and fuck whomever it is your fighting for. All of this is hinted since the beginning, as Stone paints a realistic setting of Vietnam which is a hell, and the soldiers that are thrown in there. Soldiers there ultimately don’t give a shit of why they fight but rather spend their times counting the days in which they can finally go home, at least the ones that are still standing. They try in their base camp to escape the hell they’re living by recurring to drugs either dope or booze, depending on what you like but ultimately, they’re little by little going into a process of dehumanization in which some of the soldiers still manage to maintain certain core moral values intact (like Elias’s bunch) while others are though apparently numb to the horrors of war, they’re ultimately degraded into a bunch of animals devoid of any morals, honor or respect, only their thirst for defeating the enemy and the hell with everything else (like Barnes’s bunch). These two paths, represented by both father figures (Barnes and Elias) are the paths that the main character Taylor has to choose, but since both are interwoven so closely and only a thin line separates them, it’s a struggle in the end to maintain both your strength and sanity while at the same time go out and shoot people. This is best shown in the unforgettable “village scene,” in which due to the war, man is shown at his worst and Taylor nearly falls into that when he confronts a one-legged villager. It is when both sides collide though, in which politics are finally shown, as we see how both sides take on the subject, one because politicians try to fight the war and protect their career instead of taking no prisoners and taking the enemy out once and for all, while the other side meditates obviously that in the end it was time that our asses were kicked after kicking other people’s asses. It also shows indirectly though, that if a regiment is divided, if it isn’t a unified front, it has no chance of winning a war, and since human beings are fallible and since this is a war on a foreign country to stop communism, it’s all the more probable. And this last one is important because going to fight a war on another country for a cause as vague as stopping the “evil communists” is just the type of shit that doesn’t stick. In the end politics are left out the window when you fight, and it’s all about survival, and politics fuck us up because the damn politicians ARE the ones that are making us fight this war in the first place, a war that wasn’t even ours to begin with. Deserving praise is for Oliver Stone for this film since he manages to successfully depict the utter uselessness of war and especially a war in which no American soldier had any business being there and the dehumanization of man in a hell like Vietnam and to a certain degree, an allegory of good an evil and the choice that you have to make.The cast is awesome. Charlie Sheen at first is a little shaky but ultimately gives quite a performance as Chris Taylor; by the climaxing point, he’s perfectly believable in the role. The real standouts of the film though are Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe as both Sgt. Barnes and Sgt. Elias, as they both impersonate their characters up to perfection, and ironically both giving a change of personality in the characters they used to play before this movie (Berenger played good guys, Dafoe played bad guys). Also very effective is Mark Moses as Lt. Wolfe, an ass-kissing soldier who doesn’t care about anyone but himself regardless. The rest of the cast are also great, and look out for soon-to-be familiar faces like Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker and John C. McGinley.In the end, this film is the quintessential Vietnam War film, and one of the most realistic ever made. This film should be seen by those ignorant kids whom are brainwashed into putting a uniform and a gun and fighting Iraqis in order to “make the world safe from terrorism” and believe the preachy flag-waving unrealistic propaganda bullshit of We Were Soldiers and Pearl Harbor. War is the most dehumanizing thing there is and doesn’t mean ultimately jack-shit, especially if it’s a foreign war; truly an undisputed classic. 5-5
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