Platoon

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2005)

Platoon is another great example of a war genre, an Oliver Stone film which won an Academy Award for "best picture" in 1986. Charlie Sheen, (Pvt. Chris Taylor) plays a naÃ¯ve young man, whom when entered the battle discovers there are more enemies than the Viet Cong; there is also the enemy within himself. This film truly showed what happens in battle, and sometimes it's not what we expect. Washington post says that this film is: "A Triumph! A staggering study of war." This film is filled with action, drama, and of course war. But its primary focus isn't on the war with the Viet Cong, but the war between each other. It teaches you life examples through action, excitement, and death. This dramatic war film tells the truth about what happens in battle. In the film Chris (Charlie Sheen) said: "Somebody once wrote: 'Hell is the impossibility of reason.' That's what this place feels like. Hell." These two films; "We Were Soldiers", and "Platoon" show us, the American people, the truth, some may say its wrong, but it must be told.