PLATOON – A movie review
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Like no other movie could tell, Platoon shows us categorically that war — and especially the Vietnam War — is hell.
The story is vintage Oliver Stone — based on his own experiences in the bush with only a few moments of fictionalization. In Platoon, Charlie Sheen plays a young and naive Private Chris Taylor, a newbie in Nam who is thrown waist-deep into the jungle only hours after arrival. Within a week he’s regretting having volunteered, already a shell of the man he was in the States.
Charlie’s great and all, but Platoon‘s thrill is in its supporting cast, namely Tom Berenger as a rather evil yet invincible Staff Sargeant, and Willem Dafoe as the unforgettably moral Sargeant Elias.
When Berenger and Elias spar, it’s epic acting — and as Stone details on a commentary track, it’s a bit ironic since up until this film, Berenger had always played good guys (a la The Big Chill) and Dafoe had always played terrorists. Dafoe, of course, would go on to play Jesus Christ.
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